The pilot of the helicopter that fell from the sky and landed next to a church has attributed the miracle of everyone’s survival to divine intervention, saying: ‘God was my co-pilot‘.

The helicopter crashed on the lawn of a church outside Philadelphia. All four people aboard the plane, including an infant patient, survived.

Daniel Moore, 52, was in control of a Lifenet Eurocopter EC-135 helicopter that crashed near Drexel Hill United Methodist Church in Delaware County on January 11 at 11 p.m. on the way from the Children’s Hospital of Maryland to Philadelphia.

The former military pilot suffered seven broken ribs, five broken vertebrae, and a ruptured sternum. He was later released from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center on Sunday.

Moore brushed aside claims that he was a hero, instead he credited a higher power with everyone’s miraculous survival.

“I’m kind of crazy, as you can probably imagine. I’m just feeling lucky. I had God as my co-pilot that day, and we took care of the crew and we were in front of them.” Vale landed in the yard, so it was great,” Moore told reporters before an ambulance took him home.

Moore said he doesn’t remember much from what he described as a “miracle” landing – other than “waking up and seeing and a whole company of firefighters looking down at me”, the interrogator said.

“It’s a real good feeling,” he said.

Incredibly, no one on the ground was injured by the helicopter, despite it landing in a residential neighborhood, about a block away from local eateries and about half a mile from a school.

The pilot stressed that the real heroes that day were his flight nurse, who pulled him from under the helicopter, and his flight medic, Kevin Chafee, who made sure the 2-month-old patient was safe before grabbing a fire extinguisher and putting out the flames that ignited inside the aircraft.

Moore also praised the first responders who rushed to the scene of the wreck to help the survivors.

‘I was just a lump on the ground and they were taking care of me,’ Moore added.

Moore’s fiancée, Gail Miller, accompanied him on the ride home from the hospital on Friday and praised his actions, but also attributed the outcome of the crash to divine intervention.

‘What happened that day was not short of a miracle,’ she told CBS Philadelphia, ‘When I talked to my children, I told them there were two pilots in that aircraft that day, Dan and God and how he missed the church, power lines. No one in the ground was injured.’

Video footage from local news outlets showed smoke billowing from the helicopter as it lay in a residential neighborhood.

Upper Darby Fire Chief Derrick Sawyer called it a ‘miraculous landing’ and said the community was ‘truly blessed by the outcome. Even the church appeared largely unscathed.

A local man who was out running errands with his family said his body filled with terror as the helicopter appeared to drop directly above them.

‘I was frozen for a second when that happened because I was just looking at a helicopter,” Joshua James told CBS Philadelphia. ‘It’s no way to explain it. It almost feels like something from Game of Thrones, you see a dragon coming at your car because it was literally in the sky, a huge object coming toward you. It was insane.

Witness Jarrell Saunders, who works at a nearby apartment complex, said he noticed the helicopter was in trouble before the crash.

Oh…wow! May the name of the Lord Jesus be praised!