Man sliced to death by helicopter that came to rescue him (video)

A man who survived a helicopter crash was sliced to death by the blades of another helicopter when the aircraft arrived to rescue him during a rescue mission last Sunday.

The victim's own helicopter crashed in a remote part of the southwestern Cauca District in Colombia and he and another man were stranded in the hillside for seven days after their craft broke down with technical issues. They had managed to survive for the week before another helicopter was sent out to find them and retrieve their crashed helicopter, which had been carrying valuable equipment.

There had been four successful visits by a rescue chopper to retrieve equipment. But as the chopper arrived on the fifth rescue mission the aircraft flipped over and the blade sliced the man, killing him.