See Inmates cling to rope from hijacked helicopter in daring prison escape

Hanging from a rope tied to a hijacked helicopter this is the incredible moment a Hells Angels sympathiser and jail mate escape from a Canadian prison .
For the first time a video showing Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau and Danny Provençal fleeing the jail in St-Jérôme, Quebec, has been made public.


It was shown to a jury charged with hearing two counts of murder and three of attempted murder against Hudon-Barbeau to which he has pleaded not guilty.
The 38-year-old made international headlines in March 2013 after he was sprung from prison by two armed accomplices who had hijacked a helicopter and forced its pilot to fly to the jail.

 

The two convicts clung to a rope

Hudon-Barbeau and Provençal can be seen climbing up a rope attempting to reach the waiting chopper but encountering difficulties as they try and reach the roof on which the aircraft had landed.
For six minutes the pair hang above the ground.


At one point as they struggle Hudon-Barbeau is seen clambering over Provencal, only to get stuck with his groin thrust in his jail mate's face.

A man is seen hanging from a window

Hudon-Barbeau then strips off his gloves and tries to grasp the hand of an accomplice on the roof.
But this fails and Hudon-Barbeau falls the short distance back to the ground.
In a last ditch effort to flee the helicopter takes off as the men cling to the rope ripping a security camera off a wall as they do.

The four men eventually forced the pilot of the helicopter to land and they made their getaway in a car. The pilot was found unharmed.