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A mother whose three children were killed by a drunk driver reached out to a grieving father who lost his wife in the Sea World helicopter crash while their young son was fighting for his life in the hospital.
Simon Tadros’s wife, Vanessa Tadros, 36, and the couple’s son, Nicholas, 10, were inside the Sea World helicopter that collided with another helicopter in the air before landing on a sandbar on the Gold Coast. Monday.
Ms Tadros was among the four people who tragically perished in the accident, while Nicholas is currently in hospital on life support.
The Sydney family had been vacationing on the Gold Coast for the New Year.
Devastated father Simon Tadros (pictured left) lost his wife Vanessa Tadros (right) while the couple’s son Nicholas (centre) is on life support.
Vanessa and Nicholas were in the Sea World helicopter that tragically collided with another helicopter in the air before crashing into a sandbar on the Gold Coast on Monday.
Mr Tadros, who witnessed the horrifying event unfold, stands by his surviving son’s bedside table and has asked the community to pray for Nicholas.
One person who reached out to Mr. Tadros was Sydney’s mother, Leila Abdallah, who also lost family members in a tragic accident.
Ms Abdallah’s three children, Antony, 13, Angelina, 12, and Sienna, 8, and their cousin Veronique Sakr, 11, were killed by a drunk driver in Oatlands in 2020.
He called Mr. Tadros and spoke to him on the phone for 30 minutes.
“He was asking everyone to pray, pray, pray, he wants all the prayers he can get,” she said. the daily telegraph.
‘I told him how I can relate to him. He needs to be with his son and, at the same time, he needs to organize his wife’s funeral.’
Ms Abdallah said the event “brought me back to our tragedy” adding that she would pray for Nicholas when he attended mass.
Both families have relatives who have come from the same area in Lebanon and are also part of Sydney’s Middle Eastern Christian community.
Sydney’s mother, Leila Abdallah (in the center of the photo with her husband Danny and their children) approached Mr. Tadros and spoke to him on the phone.
Ms Abdallah’s three children Antony, 13, Angelina, 12 and Sienna, eight (all pictured) and their cousin Veronique Sakr, 11, were killed by a drunk driver in Oatlands in 2020
Four people died in the Sea World crash, including Mrs Tadros, pilot Ash Jenkinson, 40, along with British newlyweds Ron Hughes, 65, and his wife Diane, 57.
A Queensland Health spokesperson confirmed on Thursday night that Nicholas Tadros was still in critical condition.
There have been no further official updates, but a cousin of Ms Tadros told News Corp that Nicholas’s latest surgery to stop internal bleeding had been successful.
Nine-year-old Leon de Silva, from Geelong, suffered brain trauma but woke up at Brisbane Children’s Hospital on Thursday morning.
In addition to Nicholas, the other two survivors in the helicopter, Leon de Silva, 9, and mother Winnie, 33, are in hospital in stable condition with multiple injuries.
His 33-year-old mother Winnie was also awake and in stable condition with two broken legs, a damaged left knee, a broken right shoulder and a broken clavicle.
Investigations continue to determine the cause of the fatal accident.
Authorities have said they want to know what happened inside the booths.
A Queensland Health spokesman said three people from the other helicopter had been released from hospital on Thursday.
Four of the helicopter’s five passengers and the pilot, Michael James, 52, suffered shrapnel injuries when the main rotor of the other plane struck the cockpit windshield.
Video shot by one of the passengers on that plane appears to show another passenger trying to warn the pilot that the other helicopter was fast approaching by tapping him on the shoulder.
The passenger then squeezes the edge of the pilot’s seat to hold him down as the cockpit is sprayed with broken glass after one of the other helicopter’s rotor blades hits the windshield.
Aviation experts have now pored over the disturbing footage recorded from inside the other helicopter involved in the disaster and revealed key moments in the video clip, including the final seconds of Mr Jenkinson and his passengers.
Two passengers have a different angle on the outside view and spot the danger, apparently signaling the plane until one frantically taps the pilot’s shoulder to alert him.
The video appears to show that the other aircraft may have been hidden by the cockpit pillar to its left (pictured)
One now believes that the crash may have been caused by a tragic twist of fate where both helicopters were in each other’s blind spots.
The footage appears to show that the helicopter being lifted may have been hidden from the surviving pilot’s line of sight by the cockpit fuselage.
And the descending helicopter, above and to the right, may have been obscured by the angle that it was on Mr. Jenkinson, who was on the opposite side of his plane with two passengers to his right.
“It’s an extraordinary quirk of fate,” industry veteran Geoffrey Thomas of AirlineRatings told Daily Mail Australia.
“The other helicopter that took off is in a blind spot,” Mr Thomas said.
‘As it turns, you can see the other helicopter. The passenger in the back can see the helicopter.
“But if you look at the pilot, part of the cockpit structure is masking that helicopter, and when it turns, it continues to mask the other aircraft.
“He’s really in his blind spot and he stays there, so he couldn’t see.”