Two people were pulled from the copter, three others on the ground were hurt.
Five people were injured and rushed to hospitals after a helicopter crashed in Huntington Beach, California, on Saturday.
The helicopter came down around 2 p.m. local time in a beach parking lot between Twin Dolphins Drive and Beach Boulevard, according to city officials.
Videos taken by bystanders showed the wreckage lodged in palm trees near a hotel.
Two people were pulled from the helicopter wreckage and three others on the ground were hurt, a city of Huntington Beach spokesperson said in a statement.
The victims were all taken to area hospitals in unknown conditions, the spokesperson said.
The city said in a news release the helicopter was associated with a “Cars and Copters” event scheduled for Sunday.
There’s no word yet on a cause of the crash.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been notified, the city said.
Timothy Bartlett said he was filming a TikTok video of helicopters landing when he captured the moment of the crash.
“I was stunned,” Bartlett said. “As soon as I saw it spinning, I knew it was going to crash because it just didn’t look right, and I knew something was wrong.”
People ran to the site of the crash and police started moving everyone back, Bartlett told . From what he witnessed, he said it appeared a tail rotor broke off from the helicopter.
Bartlett said that while the helicopter did not burst into flames, he saw what appeared to be helicopter fuel leak out.
