A piece of very shocking and breaking news comes in the headlines that around six people on board an LA County Sheriff’s Department helicopter suffered a variety of injuries after it crashed in the Angeles National Forest Near Azusa on the mid-noon of Saturday and the information about the accident is shared by the LA County Fire Department. The Lasd Air 5 Crash was too dangerous and serious and the people who were seated in the helicopter got seriously injured and later taken to the hospital where all of them are under the supervision of doctors who treated them best to rescue them from the injuries they got during the accident. The police officials and the emergency services have arrived at the spot and started investigating the whole accident which happened at the spot. Be with our page and blog to collect and grasp all the information and details about the accident.
The crash happened and occurred at around 4:56 PM near Highway 39 and East Fork Road as the LASD Air Rescue 5 helicopter was responding to the call of a car crash on Highway 39 and the crew collided before reaching the car collision patient and the car was later hauled off the hill. The helicopter, which is usually used for recovery operations, dismounted just a few feet from a 200-foot drop and the information of the accident is shared on Saturday by LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
Lasd Air 5 Crash
According to the officials, it is stated that this is the second helicopter collision in a month in Southern California and on 19th February, a Huntington Beach Police helicopter collided in the water in Newport Beach when reacting to a service call. The officer named Nicholas Vella who was a 14-year veteran of the Huntington Beach Police Department passed away and died in the collision and a second officer was critically injured after being met with the accident.
On the aircraft, there were two deputy pilots along with two deputy paramedics and also, a deputy crew chief and a UCLA doctor and the best news are that all of them didn’t suffer critical injuries and the aircraft was a Super Puma medium-lift helicopter. The Lasd Air 5 Crash is investigated under the observation of the FAA and the NTSB, till then stay tuned with us for more information and details about the accident that happened in the area.
