Pilot trapped for an hour after helicopter crashes into the roof of a Melbourne home

Emergency services freed the man, who was taken to the Alfred hospital with lower body injuries

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A pilot has survived with injuries to his lower body after his helicopter crashed through the roof of a Melbourne home.

The crash happened at Mentone in the city's south-east, where emergency services were called to Broome Avenue and Tylden Court on Wednesday about 1pm.

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