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Donated heart survives helicopter crash in California

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/11/10/keck.jpg"/><figcaption>Keck Hospital of USC <em>Photo credit: Ricardo Carrasco III, Keck Medicine of USC</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>LOS ANGELES - Talk about a brave heart -- a donated heart was alive and pumping Monday after surviving the crash of the helicopter transporting the organ to a California hospital and then falling out of the hands of a medical worker who retrieved it.</p><p>Footage of the incident on Friday showed the aircraft lying on its side on the roof of the University of Southern California&#x27;s Keck Hospital in east Los Angeles.</p><p>The aircraft had flown from a hospital in southern California with the donor heart for a transplant and crashed for unknown reasons on the USC hospital helipad.</p><p>Video footage showed fire crews retrieving the organ and handing it over to a medical worker in hospital scrubs.</p><p>The worker then trips on a metal plate and falls over as another hospital employee rushes to pick up the precious package.</p><p>A hospital spokesperson told AFP that the organ was successfully transplanted on Friday, and the patient was doing well.</p><p>&quot;The heart itself was fine after being dropped,&quot; the spokesperson said.</p><p>Officials said all three people on board the aircraft were doing well, although the pilot had suffered minor injuries.</p><div><strong>jz/to</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZmrq1bHEL8?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>LOS ANGELES - Talk about a brave heart -- a donated heart was alive and pumping Monday after surviving the crash of the helicopter transporting the organ to a California hospital and then falling out of the hands of a medical worker who retrieved it.<br /> </p>

LOS ANGELES - Talk about a brave heart -- a donated heart was alive and pumping Monday after surviving the crash of the helicopter transporting the organ to a California hospital and then falling out of the hands of a medical worker who retrieved it.