A medical helicopter carrying a child patient crash landed outside Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon – but all four people on board are expected to survive in what one official called “an absolute miracle.”
The medevac chopper crashed around 1 p.m. near Drexel Hill United Methodist Church in Delaware County on its way to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia from Maryland, authorities said.
An absolute miracle in Drexel Hill today. A helicopter crash, four passengers. None of them have life-threatening injuries. More info to come.
— Rep. Mike Zabel (@RepZabel) January 11, 2022
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Authorities said the passengers — the pilot, a crew member, a nurse and an infant patient — were able to pull themselves out of the wreck.
None sustained life-threatening injuries.
The infant was taken to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, but family members had not yet been notified, Upper Darby police Superintendent Timothy M. Bernhardt said at a press conference.
“It’s a miracle, it’s an absolute miracle, here what you see behind me,” Bernhardt said.
