Police helicopter crashes onto Glasgow pub
yes, didn't have time to look out the details, it wasn't actually on lease, but the second back up when G-SPOL was out of use.
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources...EI%2005-90.pdf
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Sky news (!) suggesting that the aircraft may have landed on the roof which subsequently collapsed under it's weight.
Utter speculation but consistent with lack of post crash fire. The holes certainly lined up for some poor souls tonight.
Utter speculation but consistent with lack of post crash fire. The holes certainly lined up for some poor souls tonight.
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Eyewitnesses speaking on the Beeb (R5) describe it falling from 500 feet misfiring and spinning and rotors not turning.
Edited to add:- No fuel fire . . .
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Edited to add:- No fuel fire . . .
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Looking at the pictures it looks like the rotor blades were still connected and the ones in the pictures show no rotational damage possibly supporting the view that they were stationary on impact ? Thoughts.
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Police Helicopter down in Glasgow
Just seen the Police statement. Still no word on casualties, which can't be good. 
He's OK. Been there, seen it and done it.
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In view of the likelihood of fatalities here, your comment is a little bit tactless dont you think ?
In view of the likelihood of fatalities here, your comment is a little bit tactless dont you think ?
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Yes, from what I have heard the casualties are the crew, everyone else ok.. Not good
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Jim's successor is alive and well...
....and spouting complete tosh on BBC. I've never heard such complete rubbish - worse even than dearly departed Jim - may he rest in peace.
I beg the Beeb not to use 'experts' in this way. They should know by now that anyone willing to spout in such detail so soon after an air accident is NOT AN EXPERT.
This expert wasn't even an aviator.
Please BBC don't do this.
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This refers to the 0400 broadcast
I beg the Beeb not to use 'experts' in this way. They should know by now that anyone willing to spout in such detail so soon after an air accident is NOT AN EXPERT.
This expert wasn't even an aviator.
Please BBC don't do this.
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This refers to the 0400 broadcast
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BBC Shame
There is a half-baked idiot being given air time by the BBC news. It is possibly the worst post-crash drivel and speculation I have ever heard!
Does anyone know who this "Ex-aviation firefighter" is? And tell him to button it?
Does anyone know who this "Ex-aviation firefighter" is? And tell him to button it?
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We just saw that news brief in PNG.
That guy sounded like a complete muppet!!
"disengages the rotors...and just before arriving at the ground he would reengage the rotors in what I beleive is called a autoroation"
far out!
Hope the crew and civi's get out all ok.
That guy sounded like a complete muppet!!
"disengages the rotors...and just before arriving at the ground he would reengage the rotors in what I beleive is called a autoroation"
far out!
Hope the crew and civi's get out all ok.
A comment from someone inside the pub at the time...
Maybe a "Weegie" can answer this. Was the pub formerly known as the Clutha Vaults? I seem to remember it from years ago when staying at the Holiday Inn across the street
Grace MacLean was inside the bar at the time of the crash, and said there was no big bang or explosion at first, and just some smoke.
She said: “The band were laughing and we were all joking that the band had made the roof come down.
"They carried on playing and then it started to come down more and someone started screaming and then the whole pub just filled with dust. You couldn't see anything, you couldn't breathe.
She said: “The band were laughing and we were all joking that the band had made the roof come down.
"They carried on playing and then it started to come down more and someone started screaming and then the whole pub just filled with dust. You couldn't see anything, you couldn't breathe.
Some of the reports mention rescue crews in the basement. Would that be where the original 'vaults' were, I wonder?