Terrifying footage obtained by 9News shows the moment the helicopter – a Robinson R22 – plummeted towards the ground at Bankstown Airport following low-level aerial exercises.

It rapidly lost altitude and crashed through multiple trees and into a car on Birch Street.

The instructor was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.

The 19-year-old student was helped out of the wreckage before being treated for serious injuries and taken to Liverpool Hospital, where he is now in a serious condition.

“I was in class on the other side of the airport, and then one of the people in my class got a call from one of his friends saying that she was in one of the warehouses and she heard something and came running out,” a witness from Bankstown Flying School said.

“Obviously tried to help, pulled the student out who is pretty shaken up, pretty bad.”

A crime scene was set up by police, who will prepare a report for the coroner.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau will launch an investigation into the cause of the crash.

Credits: 9News

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