Medical helicopter makes emergency landing on resident's lawn: What we're learning

Also tonight, a medical helicopter is still sitting in the middle of a neighborhood in Montgomery County. It had to make an emergency landing in White Marsh Township. Pen Medicine says the helicopter was heading from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center to Wingsfield Aviation Airport in Blue Bell for refueling. Well, the NTSB and the FAA are both working to figure out why this happened. Thankfully, no one was hurt when the chopper was forced to make that landing. Action News reporter Walter Perez live at the scene in White Marsh Township with the very latest. Now Walter, well Rick and Sher, your timing is really, really good because as you can see behind me, the crane is here to finish the job and remove that helicopter. Now, investigators have been dismantling that helicopter as much as possible to make the crane's job as easy as possible. And today, we spoke with neighbors who were more than grateful that nobody was injured. Neighbors we spoke with say they were having a hard time believing what they were seeing. Right around 7:45 yesterday evening, right down over the house, two down, saw the blue helicopter and um it was clearly too low and then it dropped pretty quickly right into the yard. What Becky Herabin and others who live in this part of White Marsh Township witnessed was this Pennstar medical helicopter making an emergency landing in their neighborhood and coming to rest on someone's front lawn. The pilot doing so without the tail rotor, which as you can see fell off during the descent and landed on a lawn about a block away. Neighbors saying they're amazed nobody was hurt. I I don't know how the helicopter did what he did because the kids were all over the place even then when it was going on. I mean, they were in their own backyard grilling. So, it was it's seriously a miracle. There were people mowing their lawns, walking. I mean, at all times the neighborhoods filled. So, it it is pretty miraculous that they were able to do it, but it um it was impressive. According to a statement issued this morning by Penn Medicine, the helicopter was in the middle of its schedule for the day, having lifted off from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center on its way to Wingsfield and Blue Bell for refueling when something went wrong. people who live nearby are simply happy it all ended the way it did. We're just grateful that they were so amazing at landing it and really commend them for bringing it down um where they did and not injuring themselves, any people. All right, back out live here once again. There were no patients on board the chopper at the time and all three crew members on board walked away with minor injuries. The FAA and the NTSB saying it'll be a few weeks before they can determine why the helicopter malfunctioned. Reporting live from White Marsh Township, Walter Perez, Channel 6 Action News. Sherry, yeah, it's all the talk there in the neighborhood. Okay, Walter.