MAN MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVES HELICOPTER FALL

By: libusengnyaka
June 3, 2021
9:37 pm

By Staff Reporter

BLOEMFONTEIN-A -45- year old Free State man miraculously survived a fall from a flying helicopter on Wednesday.

Spokesperson for the provincial Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Sipho Towa said they received a call for an accident on a farm about 40 kilometres outside Bloemfontein on the Brandfordt road.

Upon their arrival they found the man fell out of a helicopter. He said details about the accident are sketchy.

The patient suffered fractures to his hand and leg.

He was stabilized and transported to Life Rosepark Hospital in Bloemfontein.

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