A Victorian boy has woken up from a coma following a fatal mid-air helicopter collision on the Gold Coast where four people died and 13 others were injured.
Nine-year-old Geelong boy Leon de Silva, suffered brain trauma following a fatal helicopter crash on Jan. 2, but woke up in Brisbane Children’s Hospital on the morning of Jan. 5.
His mother Winnie, 33, is also awake and in intensive care with two broken legs, a damaged left knee, broken right shoulder, and broken collarbone.
Silva is one of two boys who survived the collision, with the other survivor, 10-year-old Sydney boy Nicholas Tadros, in an induced coma after undergoing multiple operations for “catastrophic” injuries he sustained from the accident….