A video has emerged showing the terrifying moments inside a tourist helicopter that crashed shortly after takeoff in Colombia.
The helicopter lost control, plunged out of the air and crashed into the side of a high-rise building in Medellín on Monday.
Miraculously, all six people on board the helicopter survived.
Now new footage has emerged showing the chaos in the cabin as the helicopter spins in the air and eventually crashes.
American vacationer Francisco Salas, 36, can be heard calling emergency services in a combination of Spanish and English.
The petrified passengers aboard the helicopter thought they would die when it crashed into the roof
New footage has emerged showing the inside of the cabin when the helicopter crashed
He also describes the scene on camera, saying, “I had a helicopter crash.”
“We are very high up and waiting for the police and the rescue team.”
After the accident, Francisco said, “Next to me was a woman with a lot of body weight who didn't have the strength to support herself, so I put my arm around her.”
“I supported myself against the helicopter with one arm while I supported the woman with the other for about 45 minutes.”
The helicopter ended up hanging off the side of the roof of a building, high above the ground
Somehow everyone on board managed to escape high in the air and survive
He continued talking about how he thought he was going to die.
He said: “I had my phone with me and I made a video call to my mum and dad.”
“I even said goodbye to my brother, it was a very serious moment.”
“I just wanted to say goodbye, thank everyone.”
The Texas businessman was one of six people on board the tourist helicopter at the time of the crash.
At his side were two Costa Rican women named Sandy Villalobos Marín, 34, and Karen Rivera Picada, 36, as well as Colombian nationals Luisa Fernanda Osorio and Jaime Andrés Echeverri.
Echeverri, the co-pilot, broke his leg.
The pilot was Brian Michel Álvarez, 32.
Over 70 rescue workers helped.
Yesterday, footage from outside, taken with a cell phone, was released. They show it taking off and then almost immediately starting to fall through the air.
The helicopter lost control just moments after takeoff and began to fall rapidly before crashing
Luisa Osorio, Salas' wife, told Colombian newspaper Noticias Caracol that they joined the flight to record social media content to promote her singing career and his YouTube channel and thought they wouldn't make it out alive .
Osorio said, “We moved on.” Literally, it wasn’t fully possible when it came to lifting.
“It started spinning, really fast, and we said, 'We're going to die here.'
Osorio recalled that they were told by rescuers not to move, not to do anything and not even to breathe as they worked to pull her out.