READ MORE: Young family flees 'ghostly' home after spooks leave fridge open and give Chinese burnsThe disaster site was within 100 feet from two buildings, and Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook believes the pilot diverted the helicopter, preventing the thing from crashing into the buildings, reports News4Jax.Sheriff Cook said the chopper was left "badly mangled and badly burned", reports The Sun.
Authorities believe the machine was homemade. While they don't know where the machine started its journey from, an investigation into the incident by Florida Highway Patrol is underway.
Eye witness Alexis Kelly told News4Jax about watching the horror unfurl. She said: “I was standing on my front porch actually and I heard something like the engine cut off above me, and I looked up and I couldn’t really see, and I ran to the top of the road, and probably five seconds tops it was going down.“I never thought I would witness that ever."I’m just still in shock."To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.Alexis added that her grandmother, who called 911, was still upset by the incident.
The tragedy comes after the news that just a day earlier, a 69-year-old man from Minnesota was taken to hospital with "undetermined injuries" after crashing his homemade plane into a ditch on the side of Wisconsin highway, hitting street signs on the way down, reports CBS News.Another homemade aircraft crashed earlier this month in Bothell, Washington due to engine failure, injuring two people who were on board the plane.
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