Survivor was released from the hospital after the CEO helicopter crash was killed by Utah

Ririe – The family of the surviving victim of a deadly helicopter accident against Ririe Reservoir on Thursday tells her story after being released from the hospital on Sunday.

According to Instagram Story-Posts of the social media influencer Jennifer Houghton based in Texas, known under her handle @turtleCreklane, her husband Steve Houghton was the injured passenger. Her family friend, 59-year-old Bradford Brown from Alpine, Utah, was the pilot who died in the crash.

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Coleen Niemann, spokeswoman for the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, says that Eastidahonews.com Houghton was recently released. According to the family, he is back in Texas and relaxes.

According to Bonneville County Sheriff, spokesman SGT. Bryan Lovell, the helicopter crash location, was tidied up by Friday evening and opened again.

According to local flight bike data, the helicopter was a Bell 505 Jet Ranger X and started on Thursday at 4:16 p.m. from Rexburg -Madison County Airport. The Sheriff of the Bonneville County office reported that the crash took place around 4:40 p.m. about a mile east of Ririe Dam.

The MPs have announced that a dilapidated power line was discovered in the area of ​​the crash, but the FAA and NTSB are still investigating the circumstances.

Jennifer announced on Instagram that her family was in Dallas around 5:30 a.m. on Thursday when she received a notification from the Garmin app on her phone that there was a crash.

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“At first I didn't think much about it,” says Jennifer in the post office. “But then I noticed it – it didn't come from Steve's phone. It was from Brad's helicopter. My heart fell. “

Jennifer says she looked at Brown's helicopter -GPS signal, and it was quiet in the Ririe -Sausee.

Jennifer and Steve's daughter Tiffany Houghton, who is also an influencer for social media, found that their mother received a call from an Idaho area code. When she answered, a local snowmaker was at the other end.

“This man on the phone said he was snowmobile and brought a deadly helicopter over the reservoir to crash. My heart stopped; I immediately thought my father was gone, ”says Tiffany's post. “The viewer had gone to the residential area to the crash site. The helicopter hadn't walked through the ice as if through a miracle. “

Tiffany reported that the family's snowmobile said that he was “very nervous to go on the ice, but could reach Steve and climb a nearby hill to call first aiders and Jennifer.

“For some reason that I will be grateful for the rest of my life for every day for every day, my father had the feeling that I was sitting on the back seat instead of sitting in advance. Probably to take good pictures and videos of the beautiful landscape that I can send to my mother, ”says Tiffany's Post. “In addition to a seat belt, he also wore his belt that saved his life.”

The von Houghton family flew from Dallas to Idaho Falls and arrived in EIRMC at around 2 a.m. on Friday, where they learned that Steve was miraculously had no life -threatening injuries.

“Steve has five broken ribs and is quite swollen and beaten up in various other areas. The doctors do not know how it all has happened, ”says Kimmy Houghton, Jennifer and Steve's daughter -in -law in a contribution to their Instagram. “There was zero -head trauma, the ribs broke in a way with zero tax for main organs, and there is no internal bleeding. There are so many miracles. “

Houghton was released on Sunday and the family says that Steve is recovering that they mourn the loss of their long -time friend.

“The Brown have been some of my parents' closest friends since college. Please pray with us for the Brown family while mourning Brad's loss, ”says Tiffany's Post. “He was literally the kind of person who has the shirt from his back (several times).”