MANY area onlookers were keeping an eye on this helicopter as it landed safely on the grounds of Humber College due to heavy fog. Photo by Bill Zufelt.
Area residents are still shaking their heads after a private helicopter made an emergency landing near Humber College due to heavy fog.
The noise of the chopper drew the eyes of residents towards the sky as they watched, took photos, tweeted or sent texts as the vehicle laboured into landing near Humber College, just west of Lake Shore Blvd. W., and Kipling Ave.
Long Branch resident Bill Zufelt said the passengers appeared to be safe and there was no damage to the helicopter.
Zufelt said a “the private chopper landed in Long Branch due to heavy fog.”
Social media was busy with onlookers and others tracking and reporting on the ailing helicopter.
“We heard it flying in … terrifying really,” Judy Preston wrote on social media. “We were in the yacht club yard as it came in over us … total fog over the shoreline with very limited visibility.”
Witnesses said the black helicopter made the landing on soft grass after 1 p.m. on April 13 during a period of heavy fog in the area.
Megan Cassidy said the chopper appeared to be lost.
“Saw this flying over Marie Curtis Park and was concerned and confused,” Cassidy said. “Thanks for letting us know what happened.”
Doni Gom wrote the chopper was ‘behind the Humber College Lakeshore.”
Richard Nippalow said it ‘missed the Leafs practice by a day.”
Volodymyr Luts was monitoring the chopper.
“Good call on the pilot part hopefully everyone’s OK,” Luts said.