Two men are being described as "very lucky" to be alive after their helicopter slammed into a field east of Mission, B.C., on Saturday and rolled about 30 metres.
Witness Ron McLean said he saw one person crawling out of the aircraft and the other still belted in his seat after the crash.
Officials said it wasn't immediately clear what caused the crash of the small R-22 chopper.
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Fraser Valley volunteer fire chief Rick Dekker said when rescuers arrived, they found the men lying next to the chopper.
Dekker said it appears the small, two-seat R-22 helicopter had rolled about 30 metres on the ground before coming to a stop, but it's not clear what caused the crash.
"I don't know why they lost power, but it came down onto a field on Johnson Road," Dekker told CBC News.
"Both the occupants got away from the helicopter on their own. They were conscious and they were telling us what happened. Other than that, they were very lucky."
The two men, whose names were not released, were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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