a half-block away and ran outside to see what happened. Joyce Lathe heard the crash from the second floor of her rowhouse in the 100 block of Poppleton St. The aircraft ended up on its left side, its cockpit destroyed and its tail sticking out onto the museum's entrance way.Ī stream of onlookers converged at the scene, including residents of the modest rowhouse community, children on their way home from school and people returning from work. Police said the chopper hit a light pole, then fell onto West Pratt Street and skidded through the tall iron fence. Weinhold said Wood knew the helicopter was in trouble and managed to dispatch a distress signal over his radio, twice calling out "10-50 Red, 10-50 Red," which means an imminent crash. Keller was helping the officers locate the car when the craft experienced an apparent mechanical failure. Police said last night that Keller had seen a stolen car and had radioed for officers on the ground to stop it. The pilot was trapped in the wreckage for several minutes before firefighters cut him out. They pulled out Keller and carried him to the middle of a parking lot. Officers on the ground abandoned their search, losing the car, and rushed to the crash. He said perhaps 40 people were touring the museum at the time of the crash, along with about two dozen museum staffers. Ott said none of the museum's buildings or railroad cars was hit, and no visitors were in the parking lot. Other witnesses reported hearing a succession of what sounded like gunshots but actually was the chopper's spinning propeller hitting the museum fence as the crumpled aircraft lay on its side. Moments later, Ott said, he heard what sounded like a loud bang or an explosion. He then saw the chopper fly low over the century-old roundhouse, which holds a collection of vintage locomotives and railroad cars. Ott, executive director of the B&O Railroad Museum, said he watched from his office window as police sped east on West Pratt Street. He added: “I feel great now I am waiting for a follow up appointment with Dr Gunning and I will be having an exercise test soon.The crash occurred about 2: 30 p.m., and debris forced police to close several blocks along West Pratt Street. The care I received from everyone wh en I was on the ward after my operation was amazing too!” The self-employed builder said: “Dr Gunning was excellent he was so reassuring before my operation, he put me at ease and he was just brilliant. It was confirmed by the paramedics once they arrived and ran their tests that it was what I thought.”Īt Royal Stoke Elton, who is father to 20-year-old James and 21-year old Jacob, was advised by Consultant Cardiologist, Dr Mark Gunning that he would need a stent fitted urgently to clear the blockage and to minimise the reoccurrence of another life-threatening heart attack or cardiac arrest. I knew the signs and my symptoms were exactly the same. “I was with my Dad when he suffered his heart attack when he was 42-years-old. My wife told me to take a paracetamol and go to bed but I couldn’t sit still and just generally felt uncomfortable which made me realise I was having a heart attack. Today the 50-year-old, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, said: “I got up for work, like any other day really but started to feel really breathless, and then I was sick. He was rushed to the Critical Care Unit at Royal Stoke University Hospital to receive emergency care. Father-of-two receives life-saving heart surgery following heart attackĪ North Staffordshire father-of-two who had life-saving heart surgery will feature in Wednesday’s (3 August) episode of the Channel 5 programme, 999 Critical Condition, filmed at University Hospitals of North Midlands.Įlton Wood, from Cross Heath, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, recognised what was happening to him after witnessing his own father’s heart attack when he was just nine-years-old.
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