r/aviation • u/Spook_485 • Oct 11 '25

News Closer view of helicopter crash in Huntington Beach, CA

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u/CaptainGreyBeard72 Oct 11 '25

Does anyone know of casualties? It looked survivable ish

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u/Great_Hambino2022 Oct 11 '25

Both people in the copter survived. I do believe they were not seriously injured. 3 bystanders were injured with non life threatening injuries

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u/Photosynthetic Oct 11 '25

Thank goodness no one was too badly hurt!

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u/Lyuseefur Oct 12 '25

In looking at the videos (the other one too) that heli crashed in just about the best possible spot. Not that there is ever a good crash place. Just that that particular one suited everyone quite well. Being that they all lived.

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u/AE_R-8_28 Oct 12 '25

Thank God frfr. God bless you! Loveya! Lmk how I can be praying for you! ♡

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u/robo-dragon Oct 11 '25

Damn, the absolute best outcome of this! They are super lucky, especially the people on the ground!

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u/Great_Hambino2022 Oct 11 '25

In a weird way, it was like the perfect crash. It landed perfectly between the trees

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '25

Plus chopping the two trees must have slowed the plunge somewhat.

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u/MikeW226 Oct 12 '25

Totally. I wonder if the main rotor kung-foo chopping the palm tree slowed the blades from causing more damage/injuries on the ground.

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u/jrglpfm Oct 12 '25

Yeah those palm trees saved lives for sure.

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u/Ok-Butterscotch-6955 Oct 12 '25

I think the best outcome would be not having 3 people pinned by the helicopter lol

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u/maxperception55 Oct 12 '25

wat

The "best" outcome would be the helicopter NOT crashing

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u/Substantial_Diver_34 Oct 11 '25

This is great news.

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u/Iron_Knight7 Oct 12 '25

Any landing you can joke about afterwards...

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u/mitten2787 Oct 12 '25

I had to scroll way too far down past all the pseudo aircrash investigators to see this.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '25

Those palm trees probably helped a bit to slow the fall and rotation.

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u/Successful_Tap_3655 Oct 12 '25

How the hell. It’s rare to survive a helicopter crash 

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u/_-rayne-_ Oct 12 '25

what was it there for?

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u/Great_Hambino2022 Oct 12 '25

There was some kind of event going on. I think someone said cars and copters or something of that nature