In a scary and potentially fatal incident, a helicopter lost control and crashed near a busy California beach. As a result, five people, including a child, were hospitalized.

As reported by CBS News, the incident occurred on Saturday, October 11. At around 2 p.m., near a parking lot between Beach Boulevard and Twin Dolphins Drive, a Bell 222 helicopter was seen spinning and eventually crashing into palm trees.

Many on the Huntington Beach coast witnessed in horror as the helicopter went down.

“I was stunned,” Timothy Bartlett, who captured the moment, told ABC News. “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.”

Bartlett added that while he didn’t see the helicopter bursting into flames, he did witness a f

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