Helicopter makes emergency touchdown in three-foot-wide street
THREE people have suffered injuries after a helicopter was forced to land in a street in the small municipality of El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz).
The emergency touchdown just after 17.00hrs on Sunday was due to a technical problem with the craft.
Emergency services say the three injured men, all German nationals, were the pilot and crew of the helicopter.
They had been flying over the province of Cádiz to take aerial-view photos.
Police at the scene said they were 'stunned' at the pilot's skill which enabled him to neatly slot the helicopter into the C/ San Juan, which is less than four metres wide.
Nobody on the ground was injured and in the city was no damage to properties, most of which are one-storey houses, except for one of these which had a broken window.
One of the men has been discharged from hospital, another remains in observation and a third has been moved to the hospital in the neighbouring municipality of Puerto Real.
This report says a total of three POB, all German nationals.
Mickjoebill