It seemed like a normal Sunday for Stacey Schrader and her family as they went to church. When they returned to their Lilburn home however, there was something not quite right about what they saw.
“There were two Black Hawk helicopters in the field across from our house,” she said in a phone interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Gwinnett County police said one of the helicopters had to make an emergency landing near the 4800 block of Five Forks Trickum Road. A Georgia National Guard spokesperson told Channel 2 Action News that a cockpit warning light came on.
Police said no injuries were reported and a second helicopter arrived to assist the temporarily disabled bird.
The pilots were able the fly the helicopter back to Clay National Guard Center, officials told Channel 2.
“Our neighbors were home when it happened,” Schrader said. “They said the helicopter seemed to lose control just about five feet above the pine tree at the corner of our house.”
Schrader said her neighbors watched the helicopter bounce a few times before it finally settled into the field across from her home.
Police were on the scene directing traffic as the Schraders returned home. She said there were soldiers working on the aircraft and before she knew it, both helicopters flew away.
“I guess they fixed it,” she said. “But coming home to a military helicopter across from the house is quite odd.”
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