Photo: Baylee Demars // GoFundMe
Four people were involved in a helicopter accident in Utah’s Wasatch county this week. And it was all captured on video. The aircraft spun out of control and crashed in a forest near Timber Lakes in Wasatch County.
According to the Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office, the Wasatch County 911 Center received a text-to-911 report around 3:10 p.m. on January 18. As ABC 4 reports, the crash occurred 100 yards off State Road 35, near mile marker 20. As seen in footage taken by nearby snowmobilers, the helicopter spun out of control, before falling 500 feet into nearby trees. Onlookers immediately ran towards the crash to assist the passengers onboard.
Photo: Baylee Demars // GoFundMe
Inside the helicopter were Kory Toone and his daughter, Oaklee, along with the pilot and his wife. As KSLTV reports, Toone were actually recording video when the crash occurred.
“Hearing him coach my sister through that and keep her calm, they both think they’re about to die, and he’s keeping her calm,” Toone’s other daughter, Baylee Demars, told KSLTV. “And then you hear her call out to him saying, ‘I’m alive. I’m alive. Dad, are you alive?’ He responded back and that was music to my ears. I was just so happy to hear that they could talk.”
Emergency responders located the helicopter wreckage to find that, somehow, none of the passengers had been struck by trees. However, Toone did sustain a critical head injury, for which he was airlifted to a hospital for treatment.
According to the Sheriff’s office, the cause of the crash is still under investigation and further information will be released when it becomes available.
