One of the helicopters was taking off while the other was trying to land outside the Sea World on the Gold Coast around 2 pm local time when the mid-air collision happened.
The high-level replacement happened at a time when the communist autocrat is mulling the development of new intercontinental ballistic missiles and a larger nuclear arsenal.
The airline showed 41 cancellations, or 1% of total flights, on Friday, according to flight data tracker FlightAware, far less than the nearly 60% cancellations on previous days.