What was supposed to be a vacation to paradise quickly turned into a nightmare after a helicopter crashed on a gorgeous beach in Fiji.
Chinese tourist Yang Yang was filming the Island Hoppers Eurocopter AS350 landing when a strong gust of wind caused the chopper to tip forward, right toward the beach onlookers.
Incredibly, not one of the seven aboard the helicopter, two Australians, a New Zealander pilot and a New Zealand family of four, was hurt.
"Flippin' Christmas miracle right here ... my brother, his beautiful wife and daughters all safe after this horrific ordeal," Emily-Jane Thompson, relative of the family on board, wrote on Facebook.
Fiji’s Civil Aviation Authority is investigating the crash.
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