Elmarie was enjoying a helicopter ride with her husband and two friends o the Gold Coast when she heard a voice over the microphone.
"On you're left, on your left," they said.
"I thought it was something beautiful and I looked [on my] left and I saw the [other] helicopter underneath me and I knew we were in serious trouble," Elmarie told 60 Minutes on Sunday night.
"I actually [said], 'please God help us', and then I heard the explosion."
Watch the moment the two helicopters collided on 60 Minutes. Post continues below.
Elmarie and her husband, Riaan, as well as her friend Marle and her husband Edward, were four of the nine passengers who survived when two helicopters collided on the Gold Coast last month.
That day, on Monday January 2, the New Zealand tourists decided to take the helicopter ride on a whim during their Queensland holiday.
As their helicopter was coming back in to land at Sea World, another took off and collided into them.
Speaking to 60 Minutes, Elmarie recalled the moment of the collision, which saw the front of their helicopter completely torn off.