Elmarie Steenberg first remembers seeing the blood on her friend’s body, then seeing the sea beneath their SeaWorld helicopter. “I was like, ‘Oh, we are going to die today’.”
But Elmarie, her husband Riaan and their friends Edward and Marle Swart are among the nine people who survived the Gold Coast helicopter crash that claimed the lives of four others on January 2.
Edward and Marle Swart with Elmarie and Riaan Steenberg before the Sea World helicopter tragedy on the Gold Coast. A month on, the three other survivors from Jenkinson’s helicopter – Vanessa’s 10-year-old son Nicholas Tadros, and Winnie de Silva, 33, and her son Leon, 9, from Geelong – are still in hospital with extensive injuries.
The Swarts and the Steenbergs have been interviewed by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau as well as Queensland Police, as both investigate how two helicopters from the same company managed to collide mid-air on a perfectly clear day.
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