Terrifying moment helicopter flips upside down as it takes off yards from where children are playing
4 The helicopter toppled over on the lawnCredit: BPM Media
THIS was the horror moment a helicopter flipped upside down upon take-off - just yards from where kids were playing.
Terrifying footage shows the chopper lifting off the ground, then moving backwards slightly before crashing.
4 The helicopter flipped upside down upon take-offCredit: BPM MEDIA
4 This is the chopper seconds earlier, before it flippedCredit: BPM MEDIA
The pilot was not thought to have been injured in the accident, which happened near Hinckley in Leicestershire.
One onlooker said: "I was watching the helicopter taking off as it's not something you see every day.
"As it tried to leave the ground part of it got stuck, which caused it to spin and flip, it's made a very loud crashing sound.
"It's very fortunate that nobody was seriously injured.
FLIPPED
"The response of the emergency services was phenomenal."
A woman who was nearby when it happened posted on social media that she was “absolutely terrified” as her children were playing a few yards away from where debris landed.
The frightened mum wrote: “Too close for comfort this!
"My children were playing a few yards away the other side of this hedge where debris landed! Absolutely terrifying!!"
Another person wrote: “This flew over us at Ashby road twice earlier this afternoon and I said it sounded a bit ropey!!!”
Someone else posted: “Saw this coming over Swallows green this afternoon around 2.45 ish. Seemed to be loosing power."
A further person wrote: “ Bloomin (sic) heck lucky it hasn't hit any houses.”
Another added: “Good piloting for landing it there and not on someones house."
Two fire crews from Hinckley and a technical rescue team from Leicester’s Southern fire station went to the scene.
A Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: “We were called at 15.46 to Shilton Road, in Barwell.
Terrifying footage shows the chopper lifting off the ground, then moving backwards slightly before crashing.
4 The helicopter flipped upside down upon take-offCredit: BPM MEDIA
4 This is the chopper seconds earlier, before it flippedCredit: BPM MEDIA
The pilot was not thought to have been injured in the accident, which happened near Hinckley in Leicestershire.
One onlooker said: "I was watching the helicopter taking off as it's not something you see every day.
"As it tried to leave the ground part of it got stuck, which caused it to spin and flip, it's made a very loud crashing sound.
"It's very fortunate that nobody was seriously injured.
FLIPPED
"The response of the emergency services was phenomenal."
A woman who was nearby when it happened posted on social media that she was “absolutely terrified” as her children were playing a few yards away from where debris landed.
The frightened mum wrote: “Too close for comfort this!
"My children were playing a few yards away the other side of this hedge where debris landed! Absolutely terrifying!!"
Another person wrote: “This flew over us at Ashby road twice earlier this afternoon and I said it sounded a bit ropey!!!”
Someone else posted: “Saw this coming over Swallows green this afternoon around 2.45 ish. Seemed to be loosing power."
A further person wrote: “ Bloomin (sic) heck lucky it hasn't hit any houses.”
Another added: “Good piloting for landing it there and not on someones house."
Two fire crews from Hinckley and a technical rescue team from Leicester’s Southern fire station went to the scene.
A Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: “We were called at 15.46 to Shilton Road, in Barwell.
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