A young boy critically injured in a helicopter crash that killed four people on the Gold Coast has given a thumbs up and spoken his first words since the accident, his mother says.
Winnie De Silva, 33, from Geelong, and her son Leon, nine, were rushed to hospital on Monday after their sightseeing chopper collided with another machine near Sea World and plunged onto a sandbar.
Four people died in the first machine and another young boy was critically injured, while four passengers and the pilot of the second helicopter were injured by flying glass shrapnel when its windshield shattered.
