Injured Hiker Rapidly Rotates in Basket During Helicopter Rescue [VIDEO]

Video showing the Phoenix Fire Department rescuing a 74-year-old hiker went viral because the basket she was in started to rapidly rotate. See the video below.

"Sometimes when we bring the helicopter up from the ground, [the basket] will start to spin," said Paul Apolinar, chief pilot of the police department's aviation unit. "We have a line attached to the basket that's supposed to prevent that. Today it didn't."

The crew tried to raise and lower the basket in an effort to make it stop.

After a minute of spinning the basket was brought alongside the helicopter, which landed at an ambulance.


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