The Little Rock Police Department just released video captured by one of their security cameras that shows a helicopter crashing immediately after takeoff.

Retired officer Bill Denio was piloting the aircraft to test some new equipment. At first, everything was going well as the rotary blades spun up as the helicopter began to lift from the flatbed. Then a gust of wind knocked it askew cause the copter to crash.

Denio was hospitalized with a head injury.

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