This viral video from Arizona will leave your head spinning.
According to KSAZ-TV, Phoenix rescue workers airlifted an injured hiker in her 70s from Piestewa Peak on Tuesday. But the routine helicopter rescue took a twist – and another, and yet another – as crews attempted to hoist the woman, who was in a basket stretcher, into the chopper.
Harrowing videos from the scene show the stretcher spinning rapidly underneath the helicopter for 40 seconds, KNXV-TV reported.
"Sometimes when we bring the helicopter up from the ground, (the rescue basket) will start to spin," Paul Apolinar, chief pilot for the Phoenix Police Department Air Support Unit, told reporters Tuesday. "We have a line attached to the basket that's supposed to prevent that. Today it didn't."
The hiker experienced "dizziness and nausea" but wasn't hurt during the rescue, KSAZ reported. She was taken to a nearby hospital, where she is in stable condition, according to ABC News.
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