Tom, incorrect the crash was actually a symptom of mishandling fuel and not carrying out emergency landing procedures.
The root cause was zero fuel in the supply tanks. Very simple facts.
"Running out of fuel in a Helicopter, should not mean that people have to die" Possibly not, but it doesn't really improve your chances of living whilst flying at night over a large urban area.....
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airpolice
I have thought since early on, this was all about the failure to land. The fuel thing is just a symptom.
The public understand that running out of petrol at 70MPH in the motorway is not necessarily followed by an impact with the barrier, and fatalities.
Running out of fuel in a helicopter, should not mean that people have to die.
This crash was not about the fuel, it's about the aircraft not landing. Now I can see how we might speculate on "when" it didn't land, but people died because it didn't land.
Maybe he should have landed before reaching the city centre.
I still think we will never know why.