Leicester City Owners helicopter Crash

[RoboRiise]

1 hour ago, Elite said:

You'd have thought that kind of stuff would be showing as a problem on diagnostics but sadly anomalies happen. 

If it's a chopper with a tail rotor and it's in the air when the fault develops, all the diagnostics would need to show is a big red light that says 'YOU'RE FUCKED'.  Tail rotor is there to counteract the torque from the main rotor.  Without it, the fuselage rotates around the main rotor's axis and well, basically you're crashing.

[Guest]

Sky Sports are reporting that Leicester City vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha was also NOT on board the helicopter.

 

They earlier said Jon Rudkin, the Director of Football at Leicester City was also NOT on board.

[Pidge]

 

 

Goes on to also say his son Aiyawatt wasn't at the game.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Pidge said:

 

 

Goes on to also say his son Aiyawatt wasn't at the game.

Interesting, contrary to what Sky Sports are reporting...I guess we won't know for sure until there is an official statement.

[Juniper]

Lots of eyewitness saying it wasn't on fire before it crashed. Plenty of whoppers trying to make names for themselves on twitter already. 

 

Regardless, very sad news this evening.

[Pidge]

6 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Interesting, contrary to what Sky Sports are reporting...I guess we won't know for sure until there is an official statement.

Both Jacobs and Sky Sports have said Aiyawatt wasn't on there, haven't seen Sky mention Vichai yet.  But yes, best to wait for a statement.

[Captain Turdseye]

Jamie Vardy’s having a barby. 

 

 

 

 

Sorry. 

[Lee909]

Can only hope not many on board

[redheart]

BBC reported that they thought that the manager Puel was on board also

[Guest]

BBC are reporting that the club owner was on the helicopter but no confirmation so far. Hardly surprising as its such a tragic turn of events. 

 

Very sad. 

[Champ]

I can’t work out why, besides the football connection, but this has really caught me out

[Numero Veinticinco]

10 hours ago, RoboRiise said:

If it's a chopper with a tail rotor and it's in the air when the fault develops, all the diagnostics would need to show is a big red light that says 'YOU'RE FUCKED'.  Tail rotor is there to counteract the torque from the main rotor.  Without it, the fuselage rotates around the main rotor's axis and well, basically you're crashing.

Unless you know how to autorotate, but that would have been difficult from that height anyway. 

[Megadrive Man]

French media are reporting Puel and his wife NOT on board.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, redheart said:

BBC reported that they thought that the manager Puel was on board also

 

8 minutes ago, MegadriveMan said:

French media are reporting Puel and his wife NOT on board.

I can't even see where BBC are reporting that he was as it doesn't seem to be on their website. Only that the owner was, according to sources close to the family. Still nothing confirmed.

[Bjornebye]

58 minutes ago, Champ said:

I can’t work out why, besides the football connection, but this has really caught me out

Same. Knocked the stuffing out of me last night. Still feel odd now. The footage of the flames was horrible. Just praying as few people as possible were on-board. Some reports on twitter saying the owner had is daughters with him. Hope to god thats wrong. 

[suzy]

2 hours ago, Champ said:

I can’t work out why, besides the football connection, but this has really caught me out

 Me too I was checking the news all night and first thing when I woke up.

Also I have a friend in the town and her two sons were at the game, not that I knew that at the time.

[DJLJ]

Was watching that PL talk show BT has, the show was from Leicester stadium. They showed the helicopter in the circle ready to take off and then switched to commercial and then when they came back, the 4 people on the looked reaaly shaken and then next it got taken off air because of an evacuation because of the fire. 

 

Hartson, Sutton, Hargreaves and Humphrey all looked very teary eyed. Very sobering showing. 

[redheart]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1056323708569223168

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, redheart said:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1056323708569223168

They are saying the owner, his daughter, 2 pilots and 1 'other' person were on-board. 

[redheart]

Puel seems to be ok according to other press reports

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Horrible this. Never get me in a helicopter.

[Creator Supreme]

1 hour ago, DJLJ said:

Was watching that PL talk show BT has, the show was from Leicester stadium. They showed the helicopter in the circle ready to take off and then switched to commercial and then when they came back, the 4 people on the looked reaaly shaken and then next it got taken off air because of an evacuation because of the fire. 

 

Hartson, Sutton, Hargreaves and Humphrey all looked very teary eyed. Very sobering showing. 

Fucking hell they had a day of it, first Hoddle collapsing, then present for that!

[RoboRiise]

4 hours ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Unless you know how to autorotate, but that would have been difficult from that height anyway. 

Considering they'd have had to disengage the main rotor from the presumably still functioning engine in order to do it, at very low altitude and in a helicopter that would have been all over the place from the immediate effect of the tail rotor failure, I assumed that was pretty much a non-starter.

[Numero Veinticinco]

7 minutes ago, RoboRiise said:

Considering they'd have had to disengage the main rotor from the presumably still functioning engine in order to do it, at very low altitude and in a helicopter that would have been all over the place from the immediate effect of the tail rotor failure, I assumed that was pretty much a non-starter.

Dropping the collective and pitching down, but yeah the lack of altitude would have made it a real cunt. Especially in that brick of a chopper. 

[Jairzinho]

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 Some fans speak of the Srivaddhanaprabha’s as like family, having established a bond with the community. As well as aforementioned gestures – namely handing out 60 free season tickets to mark his 60th birthday in April this year – the Thai billionaire has donated £2million towards building a new children’s hospital in Leicester; £1m to the city’s university medical department, £100,000 to the fund to rebury Richard III in 2015 and £23,000 to a fan who was raising money for research into MECP2 syndrome, his son’s rare genetic disorder.

From the Guardian.