{"id":173573,"date":"2022-12-31T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/blaine-gabbert-buccaneers-quarterback-helped-rescue-family-from-a-helicopter-crash-via-jet-ski\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T16:33:00","slug":"blaine-gabbert-buccaneers-quarterback-helped-rescue-family-from-a-helicopter-crash-via-jet-ski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/blaine-gabbert-buccaneers-quarterback-helped-rescue-family-from-a-helicopter-crash-via-jet-ski\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaine Gabbert: Buccaneers quarterback helped rescue family from a helicopter crash via jet ski"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n \n Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Blaine Gabbert used jet skis to help rescue the occupants of a helicopter after it crash landed in the water on Thursday, he said in a press conference on Friday.\n <\/p>\n \n He and his two brothers, Tyler and Brett, were jetskiing in Hillsborough Bay, Florida when he said they heard \u201ca faint noise.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWe turned around\u2026 and I just remember looking to the west and seeing \u2013 it almost looked like a crew boat that had broken up in the water into about four pieces \u2013 and I vaguely remember seeing like two yellow lifejackets,\u201d Gabbert said.\n <\/p>\n \n Once he reached the site, Gabbert said he realized that it was a helicopter in the water and expected the \u201cworst case scenario.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Tampa police said that the helicopter was making its way back to Peter O. Knight Airport when the pilot allegedly heard a loud bang and then lost power.\n <\/p>\n \n Approximately 300 feet from the airport’s beach, the pilot conducted an emergency landing into the water near the Davis Islands Yacht Club, police said, with all occupants ending up in the water.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt looked like they were in distress. We raced over there, the youngest kid had just come up and he said he was pinned in there and I asked if anyone else was trapped,\u201d Gabbert said, recalling later in the press conference that the family were all visibly shaken up and covered in oil from the crash landing.\n <\/p>\n
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