Helicopter crash involving Leicester City owners

[Ric]

Awful stuff.

 

[Crouchinho]

Doesnt look good. Hopefully no fatalaties but with choppers you dont have much chance

 

[blue by birth]

Terribly sad news..looked horrific ..at times like this all we can do is hope that by some miracle there are survivors

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

If the tail rotor failed the pilot would be helpless.
Helicopters are doomed in these cicumstances there is a formula known as a dead mans curve. Problems in this zone are almost always sadley catastrophic.

I know mate. Dont tell me, tell Thaksinssoldier .He wondered why the pilot didnt just set it down.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

From the Telegraph:



Leo Bruka, 27, who lives near the stadium, told The Telegraph he was driving home from work when he saw the helicopter falling.

"I saw the helicopter coming down, it was spinning very quickly.

"In front of me was a police car. Before it fell the police car went straight away towards where it was falling and I followed them.

"We were less than five seconds away. When we went there there was a man who I think was working inside the property of King Power stadium who opened the back gate.

"The helicopter didn't fall in the [fans'] car park. It fell inside the territory of the stadium. The car park is very close. It might be a car park for the staff because it's in the stadium.

"One of the policeman ran straight away to the helicopter and another got out a fire extinguisher. The first policeman was tying to break the glass of the helicopter, the window, then in this moment I saw a women in tears crying out loud because I think the helicopter just missed her, she was about 20 metres away.

"The fire just started and then there was an explosion.The policemen tried to calm down the fire. The police response was very quick. This all happened in less than one minute, then I could hear all the police coming around the stadium. They hadn't left yet after the match.

"A policeman asked me to stop filming because someone was in the helicopter."

 

[BigOscar]

Hard to think positively about the chances of those inside, an absolute tragedy. Hoping for the best, but hard to imagine anyone can survive that.

 

[oldtimerdiscopants]

Let's hope it isn't as serious as it looks but it looks terrible.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I hope that police officer is OK. Sounds like he put himself in harms way to help and was right in the middle of it to help

 

[MCFC1993]

Can't help but think the worse.

Awful incident.

 

[WEMBLEY76]

Awful accident,doesn’t look good,thoughts with all affected by this event.

 

[Proy]

Thoughts to all involved.

Heli crashes never tend to end well unfortunately but here’s hoping.

 

[TCIB]

Bloody hell, my thoughts go to Leicester, particularly the friends and families of those on board.

 

[gandalfthebrave]

French, Italian and Spanish papers reporting the owner died along with his daughter, and three others.



Horrific. No other words. May they all rest in peace.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

I know mate. Dont tell me, tell Thaksinssoldier .He wondered why the pilot didnt just set it down.

I’m just going off the video i’be seen, it looked in serious trouble from second one, but about thirty seconds in it stabilises a bit. Video cuts for obvious reasons. I’m no pilot but it looks bad.

Reading the witness accounts it sounds utterly horrible.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

French, Italian and Spanish papers reporting the owner died along with his daughter, and three others.



Horrific. No other words. May they all rest in peace.

They may be doing that based on a stock photo that did the rounds earlier. May not be accurate.

 

[bluethrunthru]

speculation rising that Puel was aboard too? I know that football is terribly partisan and tomorrow and Monday are another day but with Hoddle and this tonight it does seem rather trivial and the moans about international breaks etc seem rather trite.

 

[whp.blue]

I know mate. Dont tell me, tell Thaksinssoldier .He wondered why the pilot didnt just set it down.

Wasn't telling you just easier to quote you.
Lazy cvnt was my old nickname before I retired at 54.

 

[Rammy Blue]

speculation rising that Puel was aboard too? I know that football is terribly partisan and tomorrow and Monday are another day but with Hoddle and this tonight it does seem rather trivial and the moans about international breaks etc seem rather trite.

Really?

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

I keep refreshing to find out more news. This is an appalling tragedy.

Those poor, poor people!

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Wasn't telling you just easier to quote you.
Lazy cvnt was my old nickname before I retired at 54.

It shouldnt just be your old nickname