Originally Posted by
helispotter
ET, I see artee already responded, but I assume you also read the report that "A woman said she saw one of the aircraft lift off from a sandbar opposite Sea World and smash into the underside of the other", hence your question. That account may simply have been the impression she had looking from the other side of the Broadwater? The footage shows what must have been VH-XKQ lifting off from the northern most helipad at the Sea World site.
I think you are correct in that I remember reading it in the multitude of material soon after the incident, hence my assumption that the departing aircraft lifted from the sandbar.
Cheers