Police helicopter crashes onto Glasgow pub
Mercury dancer, it is difficult to disagree with your logic - in the absence of a better alternative within range it is easy to reach that conclusion. Best of a bad bunch? It would not necessarily have been obvious a) that it was a building- just a dark area surrounded by other buildings b) that below the dark area was a pub.
However, and we keep returning to this key point- why and when did the rotor stop? To choose a landing site is one thing, to guide 2.5tonnes of metal there with no apparent control is another.