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Nicholas Tadros has woken up and responded to questions after a series of surgeries in the Queensland Children's Hospital.

A private funeral is held for Ashley Jenkinson who was killed when the Sea World helicopter he was flying collided with another over the Broadwater.

A private funeral has been held for pilot Ashley Jenkinson, one of four people killed when two helicopters crashed mid-air on the Gold Coast.

A Sydney boy is in a critical but stable condition one day after he was due to have a major operation on broken bones after a helicopter crash in Queensland.

Nicholas Tadros is undergoing a major operation seven days after a chopper crash that killed four people including his mother on the Gold Coast.

Father Suresh Kumar offers a brown sash to year 5 classmates attending a mass in Western Sydney as a show of support for Nicholas Tadros, who recently achieved his brown belt in karate.

It should have been the holiday of a lifetime, but little did a group of 11 travellers know that a five-minute joy ride would soon become an unforgettable day of loss and tragedy.

A Victorian mother who survived an "unthinkable" helicopter crash on the Gold Coast that claimed four lives thanks the public for their "kind thoughts" as a Sydney priest asks churchgoers to "pray for a miracle" for a 10-year-old boy who was critically injured in the crash.

A young boy remains in an induced coma after a Gold Coast helicopter crash, while a second badly injured boy has spoken for the first time since the accident.

Ron and Diane Hughes, 65 and 57, from Wirral, had been visiting family in Australia after not seeing them since before the start of the coronavirus lockdown