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There was a light chopper and it was flying super low, with no clearance lights on,
Our job now is to look at the facts that we can gather over the next couple of days, and to establish the sequence of events,
There were no injuries sustained by people on the ground,
the police statement said I was lucky enough that I put my clothes on, but some poor people came out in bare feet and pyjamas,
she was quoted as saying in a Guardian report At the time, it was too unsafe for us to enter the hotel to view the [impact site],
Nautilus Aviation is working closely with the Queensland Police, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, and other authorities as they investigate the unauthorised use of one of our helicopters in the early hours of this morning,
He was doing runs back and forwards and backwards, and he was really the only source of information we had,
We were there for nearly three hours, and no one addressed the group,
They just flew into that building,
a female voice says in a video shared on social media that captured the aftermath One landed on the Cairns Esplanade and there was a second propeller located in the hotel pool on the bottom floor and it was on fire,
The pilot and single occupant of the aircraft was located and declared deceased at the scene, and forensic investigations are underway to formally identify them,
police said in a statement Boy, that was going fast, that helicopter, too
One woman on Facebook shared a video of the fire lighting the morning sky, saying