Boy Wakes From Coma Following Fatal Helicopter Crash on Australia’s Gold Coast

Two cashed helicopters sit on the sand at a collision scene near Seaworld, on the Gold Coast, Australia, on Jan. 2, 2023. Dave Hunt/AAP Image via AP

A Victorian boy has woken up from a coma following a fatal mid-air helicopter collision on the Gold Coast where four people died and 13 others were injured.

Nine-year-old Geelong boy Leon de Silva, suffered brain trauma following a fatal helicopter crash on Jan. 2, but woke up in Brisbane Children’s Hospital on the morning of Jan. 5.