Delaware County Emergency Services Director Tim Boyce said the flight nurse crawled from the wreckage and used a witness's cell phone to speak to emergency dispatchers.
, somehow crash-landed the helicopter without loss of life next to a church in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia.
Brian Rayner, senior safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters Wednesday he was grateful that the occupants were relatively unhurt in the 1 p.m. Tuesday crash.Daniel Moore is said to be the pilot of a medical helicopter with four aboard that fell from the sky and crashed onto the street Tuesday in Drexel Hill. Moore, a former military pilot according to his father, was badly hurt in the crash but is expected to recover.
Moore’s injuries were most severe, but the other two adults and the girl were "miraculously unhurt," he said. A spokesperson for Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania said no new information about the girl's condition was available. The Eurocopter EC135 medical helicopter was owned by Denver-based Air Methods, an air medical emergency transport service. The company said the aircraft it was part of the LifeNet program based in Hagerstown, Maryland.
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