An Orange County 12-year-old was recovering at his family’s home Friday after being critically injured in a helicopter crash in Huntington Beach.
Oliver Holland was pinned under the helicopter when it crashed Oct. 11 in a beach parking lot, injuring five people. The sixth grader was discharged from the hospital last Tuesday and shared his excitement to go back to school with his friends.
Holland had been in a medically induced coma until he woke up over the weekend on his 12th birthday after surgeries for a collapsed lung and bleeding in his brain.
The helicopter went down next to the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa at 21500 Pacific Coast Highway. Part of the heavily damaged helicopter came to rest on top of a staircase leading from the parking lot.
Holland was with relatives from out of town and walking to the bridge from the beach when the helicopter crashed.
“Wrong place, wrong time,” Ashwell said. “If Oliver was five feet ahead, it wouldn’t have happened.
“What we’ve told him is that he was just in an accident. And, what he says is, ‘How did this happen? Why did a helicopter land on me?’”
The video showed the helicopter hovering over the lot before spinning out of control. It crashed into palm trees before falling onto one end of a pedestrian bridge over Pacific Coast Highway.
Source: NBC Los Angeles
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