冷気／寒がらせるing moment loved ones wave off Sea World joy flight before four are killed and three left fighting for life when ヘリコプターs 衝突する／食い違う next to amusement park in holiday 悲劇

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Families 元気づけるd and waved off a Sea World 小旅行する ヘリコプター as it took off from the popular 主題 park just moments before it 衝突する／食い違うd 中央の-空気／公表する with another ヘリコプター and 衝突，墜落d, tragically 殺人，大当り four people on board.

Three more 乗客s are fighting for their lives, and 多重の others have been left 負傷させるd after the chopper went 負かす／撃墜する and burst into 炎上s in 前線 of hundreds of shocked holidaymakers.

破片 にわか雨d 負かす／撃墜する over Broadwater on the Gold Coast before the 手足を不自由にする／（物事を）損なうd 航空機 spiralled into a sandbar about 2pm 地元の time on Monday, while the second 航空機 managed to 回復する 支配（する）／統制する and land upright.

ビデオ from the helipad shows a holidaymaker and his young son watching the ヘリコプター 解除する and then within seconds cross into the path of the second 航空機 - with the child asking: 'Is he going to 衝突，墜落?'.

証言，証人／目撃するs 急ぐd to the 衝突，墜落 scene - just metres from the ひどく （人が）群がるd 主題 park and marina - and frantically called 緊急 services before pulling out those inside the 難破.?

Queensland 救急車 have 確認するd four people were dead, three fighting for life, and another four 急ぐd to hospital.

Three people are 恐れるd dead after two ヘリコプターs 衝突する／食い違うd in 中央の-空気／公表する 近づく the Sea World on the Gold Coast 主題 park as horrified holidaymakers watched on

Photos showed at least one of the two choppers was a Sea World ヘリコプター 小旅行する 航空機

Paramedics and police on the scene on Monday afternoon (pictured)

証言，証人／目撃するs told Daily Mail Australia one of the ヘリコプターs was coming in to land when it clipped the rotor of the other 航空機 that was taking off.

Emma Burch, another 証言，証人／目撃する, had the same account of how the 事故 広げるd.

'From what we saw one was taking off, the other 上陸. They clipped each other,' she said.

'大規模な bang heard 権利 through the Broadwater tourist park then the swooshing as the one that lost 支配（する）／統制する 攻撃する，衝突する the water and broke apart.

'It's just awful. Everyone is in shock.'

One of the ヘリコプターs 衝突，墜落d into the sandbar, leaving 難破 across the shore with the main rotor embedded in the sand some distance from the 残り／休憩（する） of the 難破させる.

Four onboard died, 含むing the 操縦する, while another three,?a woman and two young boys, are in 批判的な 条件.

The other ヘリコプター managed to land on the sandbar nearby, with six people on board, some of whom 苦しむd 非，不，無-life 脅すing 傷害s.

The two ヘリコプターs 伴う／関わるd in the 衝突／不一致 can be seen on the sandbank - with 衝突，墜落ing into the sand and the other 上陸 upright

海洋 救助（する） raced to the sandbar, seen in 前線 of one ヘリコプター with a Sea World logo?

Lifeguards and police officers on board one of several 大型船s that raced to the scene

Queensland 救急車 said there were 13 患者s in total, six in one ヘリコプター and seven in the other.?

Volunteer 海洋 救助（する） Southport 義務 captain Matt Fitzpatrick said three 部隊s were 派遣（する）d to the scene.

'There are 多重の ヘリコプターs 伴う／関わるd and we do not know the 明言する／公表する of those who were 船内に,' he said.

Photos showed at least one of the two choppers - the one that landed without 衝突，墜落ing - was a Sea World ヘリコプター 小旅行する 航空機.

The company 問題／発行するd a 声明 hours after the 衝突，墜落.

'Sea World ヘリコプターs (SWH) has 表明するd its shock and deepest sympathy for those 伴う／関わるd in the Sea World ヘリコプター 事故 on the Gold Coast, Broadwater at Southport this afternoon,' a?spokesperson for Sea World ヘリコプターs said.

'We and the entire 飛行機で行くing community are 荒廃させるd by what has happened and our sincere 弔慰s go to all those 伴う／関わるd and 特に the loved ones and family of the 死んだ.

'We are 協力するing with all the 当局 含むing the Australian 輸送（する） Safety Bureau (ATSB) and the Queensland Police. As it is now a police 調査 we cannot 供給する any その上の （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） at this 行う／開催する／段階.'

Paramedics 輸送（する）d one 患者 to a waiting ヘリコプター to be airlifted to hospital?

The 前線 of the Sea World ヘリコプター that remained still upright 支えるd 激しい 損失

It is understood the ヘリコプター taking off clipped another ヘリコプター above and then nose dived into the sand?

A young child was 輸送（する）d from the 衝突，墜落 場所／位置 by boat and then transferred to the RACQ Lifeflight ヘリコプター and 急ぐd to hospital in a serious 条件

証言，証人／目撃するs 表明するd their shock at the 中央の-空気／公表する 衝突／不一致.

'I heard a bang and saw smoke 大波ing from one of the choppers. It was smoking and wobbling to the ground,' one 証言，証人／目撃する told Daily Mail Australia.

'One person was asking whether it was part of the Sea World show.'

A distraught woman and child were seen at the helipad while part of the 主題 park was shut 負かす／撃墜する so patrons couldn't look out at the 衝突，墜落 場所／位置.?

Others said watching the 事故 広げる was 'beyond horrible'.

'My daughter saw them. People on both. Landed on the sand not in SeaWorld thank goodness. Just praying for all,' one said.

'We heard a loud noise and saw bits of debr is 飛行機で行くing,' another wrote online.

Gold Coast 居住（者） Tor Kumpel was swimming in the broadwater with his wife when he 証言，証人／目撃するd the 衝突／不一致 just after one ヘリコプター took off.

'It was only one ヘリコプター that 衝突，墜落d. The one that was coming up. It was horrific to see,' he told The 特使 Mail.

'The (操縦する) who was in the other one that landed. They deserve a メダル. It took a bit to 安定した but they did it.'

Blue Mountains 居住（者） Amii McDermot, 42, was in line at Sea World's Vortex ride when she saw the 衝突，墜落 広げる.

'There was 破片 everywhere, the tail fell off one of them and the ヘリコプター nosedived into the ground at 十分な-速度(を上げる）.'

She said her two younger children don't realise what they saw but her older two are やめる shaken up.?

捜査官／調査官s are racing to collect 証拠 before high tide covers the sandbar

Officers scour the sand for pieces of 破片 that could 補助装置 the 調査 into the 原因（となる）

The Australian 輸送（する） Safety Bureau said it has already 開始するd an 調査 into the 衝突／不一致.?

'輸送（する） safety 捜査官／調査官s with experience in ヘリコプター 操作／手術s, 維持／整備 and survivability 工学 are （軍隊を）展開する，配備するing from the ATSB's Brisbane and Canberra offices and are 推定する／予想するd to begin arriving at the 事故 場所／位置 from Monday afternoon,' ATSB 長，指導者 Commissioner Angus Mitchell said.

'During the 証拠 集会 段階 of the 調査, ATSB 捜査官／調査官s will 診察する the 難破 and 地図／計画する the 事故 場所／位置.'?

'捜査官／調査官s will also 回復する any 関連した 構成要素s for その上の examination at the ATSB's technical 施設s in Canberra, gather any 利用できる 記録，記録的な／記録するd data for 分析, and interview 証言，証人／目撃するs and other 伴う／関わるd parties.

The ATSB is asking for 証言，証人／目撃するs of the 衝突，墜落 to 接触する them すぐに.?

緊急 services 急ぐd to the 難破 hoping to find 生存者s, but 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な 恐れるs are held for all those on board