A helicopter crashed on a Madrid ring road on Friday morningcollided with a car and left three people injured, the city’s emergency services said.
There were two people in the helicopter, one of whom was able to get out on foot, while the other was rescued from the wreckage by firefighters, an emergency service spokesman told Reuters.
Both were injured in the crash, as was the driver of the car the helicopter crashed into, emergency services said.
One of the survivors had a mild head trauma, another a femur fracture and the third minor injuriesaccording to the spokesperson.
The images showed the two-seat yellow helicopter lying on its side, with its glass cockpit shattered and its tail crushed on the median, next to a highway bridge. Dozens of emergency officers were deployed to secure the area.
The car’s windshield was also shattered and its bodywork had cuts.
A spokesperson for European Rotors 2023, a helicopter fair held from Monday to Thursday at the Ifema Congress Palace, said the helicopter had been flying from Ifema to the Cuatro Vientos airfield, located south of Madrid.
Source: Ambito
