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Helicopter crash in london

By patsylabrador, in The Nesting Box

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This is on the news. It happened close to ES's flat where he watches them coming into the helipad. The point of this post is to say that I have often commented on how ES gets caught up in disasters and we now call him The Prince of Darkness. However, he is out of the country and can't be blamed for this one.

On a serious note: dramatic pictures on news, trying to contact ES's girlfriend but I'm confident she won't be involved.

No news on casualties but it looks hopeless for the pilot. The crane is in a precarious state.

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Yes it was definitely the crane drivers lucky day.

 

The helicopter pilot went to school in Rutland and regularly flew the Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance.

 

So sad but amazing that more were not hurt or killed.

 

DD and DS both texted OH to see if he was in London today and ok, I didn't hear about the crash until after school so I didn't text him :oops:

 

Chrissie

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It seems the crane driver is a very lucky man. He was late due to dropping his children off (he had never been late before) and thus wasn't at the top of the crane, where he would definitely have been killed.

 

 

Wow !!!!! Someone was def smiling on him today!

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It seems the crane driver is a very lucky man. He was late due to dropping his children off (he had never been late before) and thus wasn't at the top of the crane, where he would definitely have been killed.

 

 

Wow !!!!! Someone was def smiling on him today!

 

According to a colleague, the crane driver said he was going to buy a lottery ticket!

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Poor man - he was, according to the press, a very experienced and very well respected pilot. I feel so sad for his family (apparently he had two children) and the family of the person killed 'on the ground'.

 

It would seem, again from the press, that it was a tragic accident due to a combination of bad weather and no light onthe crane?

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It would seem, again from the press, that it was a tragic accident due to a combination of bad weather and no light onthe crane?

I wish the press would stop speculating, the AAIB will publish a report in due course.

 

As a (fixed-wing) pilot, I entirely agree. The light is a red-herring as it would only have been lit at night.

 

H

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