After a helicopter crash, the plane caught fire. Luckily, one of the survivors managed to save his own life - and the life of the unconscious pilot.
Two weeks ago, a group of three miners were headed for a diamond mining expedition in Northern Canada - but their small helicopter didn’t quite make it there. The plane went down near the team’s campsite in Norman Wells, a wooded site in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
Things didn’t look good for the three travelers on board, especially when the plane caught fire. Luckily, one of the passengers, a drill foreman named Don Morrison, had the presence of mind to radio for help. As flames began to race through the length of the helicopter, he grabbed the unconscious female pilot and carried her towards a clearing. Sadly, by the time he tried to return to rescue the other unconscious passenger, the plane was completely ablaze.
“For him right now, it’s really kind of difficult, because it is bittersweet ... (someone) did die in the crash,” Morrison’s general manager at Cabo Drilling told The Edmonton Journal. But on the bright side, Morrison walked away from the horrible accident with only a few bruises, and the pilot seems poised for recovery, thanks to Morrison’s brave rescue effort.
“He is a hero in the eyes of the pilot,” said Ted Soucie, a rescue worker. And in our eyes, too.