We have heard more from Veronica Knight, who witnessed this morning’s helicopter crash in Cairns.
She has described how the helicopter flew around “really fast” before hitting the Double Tree Hilton Hotel, creating a “massive explosion”.
“It was like a fuel tank exploding,” Knight, a tourist from Sydney, said.
The fire on top of the hotel roof, where the chopper crashed.Credit: X
Knight said she saw the helicopter fly around for about 15 minutes, twice going past her “really fast”. She added that it flew away from the hotel before circling back at “full force and full speed”.
“It came back real fast then went into the hotel. I was very scared,” she said.
“It was like an army helicopter, but faster. Like a warplane, like it was going to come in and bomb you.”
Two of the helicopter’s rotor blades came off and were found on the Esplanade and in the hotel pool, although no one on the ground was injured.
“We saw the rotor on the ground. I wasn’t far away. It could have got me,” Knight said.
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