Helicopter crashes on busy Madrid highway, injuries reported (photos, video)

According to Reuters, there were two people in the helicopter, one of them escaped on his own, while the other was rescued from the wreckage by firefighters.

"Both were injured in the crash, as was the driver of the car hit by the helicopter," the media writes.

According to the article, one of the survivors of the accident had a minor head injury, another appeared to have a broken thigh bone, and the third had minor injuries.

A helicopter crashed on a busy road in Madrid on December 1 (twitter.com/EmergenciasMad)

As Marca notes, the Enstrom 280FX Shark helicopter with registration F-HPUX was participating in the European Rotors exhibition. The aircraft, en route to Cuatro Vientos Airport, crashed 5600 km into the M-40 highway. Local media do not rule out that the cause of the helicopter crash may have been a strong wind. Marca refers to the European Rotors aviation fair as "one of the most important in helicopter aviation and one of the largest in Europe."

A helicopter crashed in Madrid on December 1 (twitter.com/OnAviation)

Providing more details on the incident, El Pais writes that the helicopter's landing gear was twisted by the impact.

Pedro, an employee of a nearby laundry near the crash site, quoted by journalists, said he first heard a loud crash. "When I looked out, I saw cars braking on the road, and then a helicopter with a broken tail. You can see that he had great skill because he fell in the middle of the road... Thank God it was the morning," he said.

#ÚltimaHora: el helicóptero Enstrom 280FX Shark con matrícula F-HPUX que participaba en la feria European Rotors que se estaba llevando a cabo en Ifema se ha estrellado en la M40 de Madrid poco después de despegar. El helicóptero ha caído en el punto kilométrico 5.600 del… pic.twitter.com/YVgVkgcCbZ

— On The Wings of Aviation (@OnAviation) December 1, 2023