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12-Year-Old Boy Awake and Off Ventilator After Huntington Beach Helicopter Crash

Video showed him pinned beneath wreckage near a Pacific Coast Highway staircase, with investigators working to determine the cause.

Overview

  • Family updates say Oliver Holland is breathing on his own, recognizes loved ones, can communicate, and has begun to move parts of his body.
  • He woke on his 12th birthday after a medically induced coma following surgeries for a collapsed lung and a brain bleed.
  • The Oct. 11 crash injured five people and occurred next to the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach, where wreckage came to rest on a pedestrian bridge staircase.
  • Witness videos captured the helicopter spiraling out of control and striking palm trees before becoming wedged near the stairs.
  • The NTSB is leading the investigation, and officials have identified the aircraft as a 1980 Bell 222 that departed Redlands for the Cars N’ Copters event.