the impact is surprisingly gentle, but they re not out of danger. fuel is leaking and the fear is it could blow any minute. i was worried something was going to catch on fire. the pilot instructs everyone to stay in the aircraft until the rotors stop spinning. but the co-pilot jumps out before the blades come to a complete halt. luckily, he isn t hurt. whitlock stays put while his camera continues rolling. after a few seconds, the pilot tells him it s safe to get out. emergency workers stationed at the end of the race course are on the scene within seconds. is someone in there? amazingly, no one is injured in the crash. we all came out of there without a scratch on us. whitlock brushes himself off and starts shooting again. i wanted to shoot the helicopter i just came down to separate myself from the crash,
maybe to give myself a little bit of a buffer. the fire department quickly secures the scene and the leaking fuel is controlled. whitlock is grateful to the pilot whose quick thinking, he says, averted a more serious situation. we were coming down right on top of the road where there was a lot of spectators on the road. he pulled it off at the last second and put it down on the hill where he did. if he hadn t of done that, there would have been a lot of people hurt. this was whitlock s first time up in a helicopter and certainly a memorable trip. despite the close call, he says, he d fly again. i have my one get out of jail free card. i think statistically i should be good. a giant inflatable slide goes airborne at a children s soccer tournament. oh, my god. oh, my god. and frantic parents rush toward the scene. it was just chaos. it s june 4th, 2011, in the
inside the aircraft? the way it landed on the side of the hill and going forward, the first thing i thought was people would have hit the windshield. film maker jeremiah whitlock is behind the camera, inside the chopper as it goes down. the only thing i felt as the chopper was going down, is that slight sinking feeling in your stomach as you go over the top of the hill real fast in your car, or the top of a roller coaster. after following the racers from a distance from the start of the course, whitlock wants to get in closer before the last series of turns before the finish line. the helicopter was moving to cover them better. he is focused on the racers below, not the position of the helicopter. that s when the helicopter started to lose power. we started dropping quick. that s when the rotors starting clipping the top of the tree. i didn t really have time to think. i just held on to my camera until we hit.
the impact is surprisingly gentle, but they re not out of danger. fuel is leaking from the chopper and the fear is, it could blow any minute. i was worried something was going to catch on fire. the pilot instructs everyone to stay in the aircraft until the row tors stop spinning. but the co-pilot jumps out. luckily he isn t hurt. whitlock stays put while his camera continues rolling. until the pilot says it s safe to get out. emergency workers stationed at the end of the race course are on the scene within seconds. is someone in there? amazingly, no one is injured in the crash. we all came out without a scratch on us. whitlock brushes himself off and starts shooting again. i wanted to shoot the helicopter i just came down to maybe separate myself from the crash, maybe to give myself a
bit of a buffer. the fire department quickly secures the scene and the leaking fuel is controlled. whitlock is grateful to the pilot whose quick thinking, he says, averted a more serious situation. we were coming down right on top of the road where there was a lot of spectators on the road. he pulled it off at the last second and put it on the hill where he did. if he hadn t of done that, there would have been a lot of people hurt. this was his first time up in a helicopter and certainly a memorable trip. despite the close call, he says, he d fly again. i have my one get out of jail free card. i think statistically i should be good. a giant inflatable slide goes airborne at a children s soccer tournament. oh, my god. oh, my god. and frantic parents rush toward the scene. it was just chaos. it s june 4th, 2011, in the