Dribble
11-12-2005, 03:51 PM
SACRAMENTO COUNTY - Authorities are amazed that a 26-year-old woman walked away from a helicopter crash Thursday afternoon south of Rancho Murieta that destroyed the vintage aircraft she was flying.
Perhaps even more remarkable, after walking nearly two miles from the crash site, Alika Rogers was rescued by a horse when her injured body could go no farther.
Rogers had ducked under the fence near a ranch house, but could not get back to her feet. She screamed for help, but no one arrived - except the horse in the pasture, which came to her side when people in the house failed to hear her cries.
"The horse came over to her and nudged her with his nose, and she held onto his nose and he lifted her up" and helped her to the house. "That was the way she described it," said Debbie Jo Baker, who comforted Rogers while emergency responders arrived.
Fire officials reported Rogers suffered moderate injuries in the crash and was in fair condition at UC Davis Medical Center.
Flying over the rural, open fields of southeast Sacramento County about 12:30 p.m., Rogers felt the helicopter begin to shudder, apparently from some sort of engine failure, said Capt. Steve Turner of the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.
Perhaps even more remarkable, after walking nearly two miles from the crash site, Alika Rogers was rescued by a horse when her injured body could go no farther.
Rogers had ducked under the fence near a ranch house, but could not get back to her feet. She screamed for help, but no one arrived - except the horse in the pasture, which came to her side when people in the house failed to hear her cries.
"The horse came over to her and nudged her with his nose, and she held onto his nose and he lifted her up" and helped her to the house. "That was the way she described it," said Debbie Jo Baker, who comforted Rogers while emergency responders arrived.
Fire officials reported Rogers suffered moderate injuries in the crash and was in fair condition at UC Davis Medical Center.
Flying over the rural, open fields of southeast Sacramento County about 12:30 p.m., Rogers felt the helicopter begin to shudder, apparently from some sort of engine failure, said Capt. Steve Turner of the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.