Witnesses reported seeing the helicopter engulfed in smoke and swaying violently before it dived from the sky.
I watched him for an hour, and he never stopped swaying violently from side to side, lashing out with his trunk whenever someone lingered nearby.
"The building shook and swayed violently; everything cascaded from shelves and desks onto the floor," the architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
Most were in the pews when the walls and floor began swaying violently and chunks of adobe and stones began to rain down from the roof, witnesses said.
Video of the collapse shows light fixtures swaying violently from the roof as the sides of the structure began to buckle.
Around the car on this bumpy gravel road, trees swayed violently, as if some devilish subterranean hand was gripping their roots to shake the trunks and branches in disapprobation of his reckless intrusion.
Passengers said that the carriages of the train began rocking and swaying violently before the train left the rails and careered down an embankment, with the first carriages jack-knifing and most of the train coming to rest in a field.
