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Two young boys critically injured in the horrific mid-air collision between two Sea World helicopters are barely clinging to life in hospital.
Pilot Ash Jenkinson, 40, Sydney mother Vanessa Tadros, 36, and British couple Ron Hughes, 65, and Dianne Hughes, 57, were tragically killed on the Gold Coast on Monday when their helicopter took off from the theme park's helipad and 20 seconds later collided with another chopper.
Winnie de Silva, 33, and her nine-year-old son Leon from Victoria are among three passengers who sustained critical injuries when the helicopter nosedived into a sandbar on the Gold Coast Broadwater.
Leon, who arrived in Australia last year to be reunited with his mum, has been placed in an induced coma at the Queensland Children's Hospital in Brisbane.
His shattered stepfather Neil revealed on Wednesday Leon's condition remains a major concern.
The other survivor on board was Ms Tadros's 10-year-old son Nicholas, is on life support in Gold Coast University Hospital, where he's already undergone four surgeries.
Nicholas' grief-stricken dad Simon helplessly watched on as his wife was killed in the tragedy.
Simon Tadros (left) is keeping vigil at his son Nicholas' hospital bedside as his mourns the loss of his wife Vanessa (right)
Leon (left) is in an induced coma in Brisbane while his mum Winnie (right) is in intensive care on the Gold Coast
Mr Tadros told The Courier-Mail on Wednesday to: 'Ask everyone to pray for my son that he wakes up and makes a good recovery'.
'He is on life support in a critical condition. So please he needs all the prayers he can get,' Mr Tadros posted on Tuesday night.
'Please keep your prayers strong, may God pull him back with me and make a good recovery.'
Friends and neighbours back home at Glenmore Park in Sydney's west have paid tribute, including local state MP Tanya Davies.
'So often tragedies like these seem so far away from us but this devastating accident brings to home how precious and fragile life can be,' she wrote.
'Vanessa’s son Nicholas, is still in a critical condition in hospital. I pray for him and all the other surviving victims at this time. I especially think of Simon Tadros, Vanessa's husband and Nicholas' dad, who was on the ground at the time of the accident. He is by his son's side in
