Leicester Owner's Helicopter Crashed outside stadium

Azza · 27 Oct 2018 at 20:54

****ing hell the Leicester helicopter has crashed in a car park at the rear of the stadium after take off.

Azza · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:00

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1056272120924303360

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1056271834608553984

Andybtsn · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:01

Crikey, hope all are ok although doesn't look good.

Jokester · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:02

Bloody hell.

drunkenmaster · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:08

HOpefully it was a onboard fire, they land and get out then the thing is on fire. If it just straight up smashed into the ground... not good. By the sounds of it it's basically Leicester owner and family/friends take it after each game to go home so that's who will presumably have been in it when it crashed.

Jokester · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:10

Photos show it in relatively one piece on it’s side so there’s a decent chance they got out before the blaze took hold hopefully.

planty · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:11

Terrible scenes, hope all ok.

Sui · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:12

Hopefully they’re okay, awful.

BaZ87 · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:23

Awful scenes and I hope by some miracle there's no casualties.

Sui · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:30

The reporting on sky sports news doesn’t sound good from the witness reports, burst into flames on impact apparently and potentially in the staff car park

IainR · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:37

The photo does show it looking fairly intact, but that's not a controlled crash landing, so I would imagine not much warning for passengers and crew.
I very much doubt that people got out of that due to the severity of the impact before the avtur ignited.
I hope I'm wrong, but having worked in Aviation for last 11 years, I doubt it

robfosters · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:39

How awful.

I don’t like helicopters. I could be stone bonk rich, I’d never have one. Too many go down.

Ayahuasca · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:41

awful, doesn’t look good from them videos above, let’s hope they made it out.

LoadsaMoney · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:46

Terrible

Hope they all managed to get out ok.

robfosters · 27 Oct 2018 at 21:46

Glenn Hoddle and now this. What a terrible day for football

antijoke · 27 Oct 2018 at 22:00

The report on the BBC makes it sound not good.

Sky Sports News reporter Rob Dorsett said the helicopter took off from the pitch, as it does after every game.

He said that after a few seconds it appeared to lose control and crashed into the car park just a few hundred metres away.

One witness said it appeared "the tail propeller wasn't, working putting it into a spin".

Freelance photographer Ryan Brown was covering the game and saw the helicopter clear the King Power stadium before it crashed.

He told 5 Live: "Literally the engine stopped and I turned around, and it made a bit of a whirring noise.

"It turned silent, blades started spinning and then there was a big bang."

He said when he ran to the scene "there was a huge fireball" and it looked like the helicopter had crashed in an industrial park next to the stadium.

You’d have thought they would straight up say if the owner was safe or not as they would know who was in it, hopefully they are all OK.

Jokester · 27 Oct 2018 at 22:09

antijoke said:
You’d have thought they would straight up say if the owner was safe or not as they would know who was in it, hopefully they are all OK.

Yep, police won’t announce fatalities normally until families have been informed

IainR · 27 Oct 2018 at 22:16

Apparently the owner, his wife, sporting director and pilot were all killed in the crash.
Unconfirmed of course.

Ayahuasca · 27 Oct 2018 at 22:22

If that’s true that’s a ******* tragic way to die

el_dazza · 27 Oct 2018 at 22:22

Moses said:
https://twitter.com/maxweiijackson/status/1056283747627270144?s=21

Sun journo...

Would appear from the comments that it's a fake account - just an attention seeking muppet.