LINCOLN — Brandi Lindstrom lives in Lincoln and was awake with friends when a helicopter suddenly crashed in the Mid-Town Plaza parking lot right on Main Street just after 1 a.m. on Tuesday, August 26, 2025.

“It’s literally like in the movies where it’s like slow motion, things flying past you, that was what it was like,” Lindstrom said.

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Debris was scattered all across the parking lot, from bent metal pieces to shattered glass. She says she could tell there was a problem even before the crash.

“It was like right above the trees, you could tell it was gonna be a really hard landing,” Lindstrom said. The sign doesn’t have any lights or really anything to it to begin with; it was just an empty sign, so

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