BBC now has more info:
Lib Dem helicopter crashes
helicopter has crashed just hours after carrying the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Jim Wallace on
the final leg of his election tour.
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Three people have been taken to hospital following the accident at Crichton, about five miles south of
Dalkeith in Midlothian.
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Emergency services said one of the injured is a Liberal Democrat election campaign worker, whose
condition has been described as "walking wounded". The helicopter took off from Greenock on Wednesday
morning with Mr Wallace and Liberal Democrat MP Michael Moore on board. Their first stop took them to
Glasgow, where they landed briefly at a playing field in the Toryglen district to speak to activists.
It flew on to Perth and then to Aberdeen, where the men got out about 1pm, Mr Wallace to head for his
constituency in Orkney.
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A party spokesman said the crash happened when the aircraft was on its return journey, Emergency
services were alerted at about 3.30pm when it came down on Longfaugh Farm. Eye-witnesses said the
helicopter plunged 150ft into a hillside after hitting a power line and damaging its tail rotor. Scott
Riddell, a member of the family running the farm, said the helicopter had come down in a hilly field.
He described the aircraft's occupants as "shaken, but not seriously injured". The Scottish Ambulance
Service said a man, aged 31, was taken by air ambulance to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with neck pains.
Mr Wallace is interviewed beside the aircraft
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A second man, aged 47, complained of back pain and was suffering from shock, while a third, aged 39
escaped injury. One was flown to hospital by air ambulance, the other two were taken by road. A
spokesman for Mr Wallace said: "Obviously Jim is very concerned and will be monitoring developments
very closely." Two fire engines, a heavy rescue tender and a support unit went to the scene and sprayed
a foam blanket around the helicopter to absorb escaping fumes. Firefighters remained on scene as a
safety measure to keep watch on the helicopter and the damaged overhead power lines. Air accident
investigators are to launch an inquiry.