Experts explain helicopter incident in Cedar City that left one injured

Santa landing in a helicopter on Main Street has been a Cedar City tradition for years, but this year, let’s just say things didn’t go as planned.

Attendee Steve Holm was in the crowd and started to hear chatter when something seemed off.

“The helicopter comes down, it’s 20-30 feet off the ground or whatever, and then it just goes back up. And everybody’s like, okay, so is he going to come around and circle down and touch down again?” Said witness Steve Holm.

“Hey, a piece of material hit that helicopter,” Holm said. “By now, the helicopter was gone. We don’t have time to be scared, right? I mean, it was gone out of the way, and then we’re sitting here like that could have been really, really bad.”

Cedar City resident Amy Pichette was also in the crowd, and she had one way to describe it.

“It reminds me of Final Destination, if you think about it, that’s all that I could replay in my head, it’s like, holy cow, this could have been ridiculous,” she said.

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