97.3FM – SeaWorld Helicopter Crash – Thursday 5th January 2023 [Audio]

Transcript:

Speaker 1:
… morning. Vision from inside the chopper that landed safely on a sand bank will help investigators piece together how and why Monday’s mid-air collision on the Gold Coast occurred. The video shows the passenger frantically tapping pilot Michael James on the shoulder seconds before impact. Pilot and aircraft crash lawyer, Peter Carter, has told Seven it’s possible they simply didn’t see each other.

Peter Carter:
That said, there should have been, and this is something the investigators will pay particular attention to; what were the procedures of that particular operation company to avoid those types of incidents? And the investigators will pay particular attention to the standard operating procedures of Sea World Heli-