Leicester helicopter crash

Somethingfishy · Post by **Somethingfishy** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:50 pm

The helicopter carrying the family that owns Leicester City has crashed in the club car park..part of the stadium is on fire apparently. BT Sport just cut broadcast short.

Vino blanco · Post by **Vino blanco** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:55 pm

Watching horrendous pictures on sky. God, it looks serious!

jdrobbo · Post by **jdrobbo** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:58 pm

Looks absolutely terrible.

Somethingfishy · Post by **Somethingfishy** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:58 pm

BT Sport showed it on the pitch ready to take off before an ad break..they came back and from way Jake Humphrey was talking i thought Glen Hoddle had passed away..then he said the helicopter they had shown ahd crashed...stunned. They were then forced to finish early due to fire alarm going off.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:02 pm

Does not look good.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:05 pm

Horrendous news, absolutely horrendous. Can only hope things aren't as bad as they appear.

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:11 pm

that's truly awful

jrgbfc · Post by **jrgbfc** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:12 pm

Hard to see anyone who was in it surviving unfortunately.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:14 pm

jrgbfc wrote:Hard to see anyone who was in it surviving unfortunately.

But..we can live in hope that people have.

Somethingfishy · Post by **Somethingfishy** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:16 pm

Steve1956 wrote:But..we can live in hope that people have.

From the pictures i have seen there would have been next to no chance. Hope yes..but sadly in reality very very unlikely. You have to be worried for anyone who was in the car park where it came down too.

jrgbfc · Post by **jrgbfc** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:21 pm

Hopefully anyone who might have been in the car park could see the helicopter struggling and managed to get out of the way.

South West Claret. · Post by **South West Claret.** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:23 pm

The most dangerous times for a helicopter to crash is when taking off and landing, in fact their safety record isn’t that good relative to aircraft.

Remember when the Chelsea vice chairman I think at the time dying in one of these things after a midweek game at Bolton from memory. Some decades ago.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:28 pm

FactualFrank wrote:Does not look good.

Jesus!

Chester Perry · Post by **Chester Perry** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:30 pm

South West Claret. wrote:The most dangerous times for a helicopter to crash is when taking off and landing, in fact their safety record isn’t that good relative to aircraft.

Remember when the Chelsea vice chairman I think at the time dying in one of these things after a midweek game at Bolton from memory. Some decades ago.

Mathew Harding - that was a crash in bad weather - this isn't - Leicester owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha is believed to be the only family member at the match today and it was his helicopter

mdd2 · Post by **mdd2** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:30 pm

South West Claret. wrote:The most dangerous times for a helicopter to crash is when taking off and landing, in fact their safety record isn’t that good relative to aircraft.

Remember when the Chelsea vice chairman I think at the time dying in one of these things after a midweek game at Bolton from memory. Some decades ago.

Matthew Harding- I think his helicopter hit overhead wires on the way back to London from Bolton.

Just Googled that. It was in 1996-didnt seem 22 years ago to me

mdd2 · Post by **mdd2** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:36 pm

BBC saying it is not known who was on board but whoever was will not have survived that inferno unless there was a delay before the fire started. What a bad day for soccer

South West Claret. · Post by **South West Claret.** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:38 pm

It probably looks worse then it is in terms of loss of life as depending on what time the copter took off, let’s hope as it’s the staff car park the casualties are low.

I assuming that most of the staff stay behind to look after the sponsors and various guests and most of the ones who watch the game are parked around the ground but could be wrong.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:38 pm

I think, though hopefully i'm wrong, that if the owner wasn't on board and everyone was OK we'd know that by now because he'll have wanted to reassure Leicester fans.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:40 pm

I'm thinking the same - I've put the news channels on and even Sky Sports News and they aren't even reporting it, so it can't be bad.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:40 pm

mdd2 wrote:BBC saying it is not known who was on board but whoever was will not have survived that inferno unless there was a delay before the fire started. What a bad day for soccer

It is only speculation but suggestions that the chairman could be on board but no other members of his family. It really is horrific is this. Strangely, I was only thinking today that we might get a helicopter on the pitch when we visit, they tend to do it every year for the remembrance match. Then I see this news.

Thoughts with everyone at Leicester.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:42 pm

South West Claret. wrote:The most dangerous times for a helicopter to crash is when taking off and landing, in fact their safety record isn’t that good relative to aircraft.

Remember when the Chelsea vice chairman I think at the time dying in one of these things after a midweek game at Bolton from memory. Some decades ago.

Yes awful. Matthew Harding.

Longsidebovril · Post by **Longsidebovril** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 10:57 pm

Puts football into perspective.
Only hope they managed to get out.

Cleveleys_claret · Post by **Cleveleys_claret** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:03 pm

Owner being reported as dead....RIP

dpinsussex · Post by **dpinsussex** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:10 pm

Cleveleys_claret wrote:Owner being reported as dead....RIP

Not good

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:13 pm

RIP Great shame....

dpinsussex · Post by **dpinsussex** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:14 pm

Sky reporting vice chair and one of directors definitely NOT on board

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:16 pm

24.. ‘not good’ ?

CrosspoolClarets · Post by **CrosspoolClarets** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:18 pm

Obvious delay if there were fatalities due to next of kin prioritisation (potentially hard if they are overseas).

A terrible tragedy if reports are correct (though let’s not be premature), doesn’t matter if you are young or old, rich or poor, anybody going to a footie match should have a right to get home safely. The world sucks at times.

dpinsussex · Post by **dpinsussex** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:19 pm

hampsteadclaret wrote:24.. ‘not good’ ?

Well it's certainly not good is it?

Spiral · Post by **Spiral** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:23 pm

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"The owners are now heading off. It's when we consider out life choices."

****ing hell, that's disturbing.

box_of_frogs · Post by **box_of_frogs** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:30 pm

Cleveleys_claret wrote:Owner being reported as dead....RIP

Not seen that yet. Key to this will be how hard the crash landing was, and whether it burst into flames immediately, or if there was a minute or so until it took hold giving a chance to get out.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:38 pm

box_of_frogs wrote:Not seen that yet. Key to this will be how hard the crash landing was, and whether it burst into flames immediately, or if there was a minute or so until it took hold giving a chance to get out.

Not from a great height onto concrete sadly.

Rick_Muller · Post by **Rick_Muller** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:39 pm

From reports on Sky Sports News eye witnesses have said it dropped in a second and burst into flames on impact. No occupants would have survived that unfortunately. RIP to those on board

CaptJohn · Post by **CaptJohn** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:56 pm

Truly horrible. My thoughts are with LCFC and the owners family.

Jel · Post by **Jel** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:19 am

BBC just saying that the manager could have been on board too! Truly shocking.

Jel · Post by **Jel** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:20 am

Edit
Duplicate post!

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:31 am

Tragic news. Just shows despite wealth how fragile life is.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:33 am

It's been 4 hours. The silence is deafening.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:54 am

Burnley v Chelsea is just another game of football......nothing more..nothing Less it's not that important in the grand scheme of things.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:49 am

Ben Jacobs on Twitter says that the owner was onboard the helicopter but that his son was not, and that most of the family is in Thailand.

His Twitter profile is verified and describes him as "Senior journalist/commentator @BeINSports, @ESPNFC writer and @talkSPORT's Middle East correspondent."

Loyalclaret · Post by **Loyalclaret** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 2:06 am

Looks terrible.

I’ve heard the Leicester fans taught Chelsea fans about Matthew Harding’s accident over the years. Hope there is some kind of miracle and no one was seriously hurt.

The Enclosure · Post by **The Enclosure** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 5:10 am

A terrible tragedy.I think our game against Leicester in 2 weeks will be their next home match and a very sad occasion for their club.

Edit- Just seen that Leicester are scheduled to play Southampton at home next Tuesday in a cup match.Would not be surprised if that match gets postponed.

agreenwood · Post by **agreenwood** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:21 am

Truly horrendous.

You’d think the Premier League games today will be postponed as a mark of respect.

Rick_Muller · Post by **Rick_Muller** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:33 am

agreenwood wrote:Truly horrendous.

You’d think the Premier League games today will be postponed as a mark of respect.

I’ll pay respect by observing a minute silence today at the ground, no need to cancel life because of a tragedy.

ClaretDiver · Post by **ClaretDiver** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:34 am

agreenwood wrote:

You’d think the Premier League games today will be postponed as a mark of respect.

I understand your sentiment but it's just not practical unfortunately

AlargeClaret · Post by **AlargeClaret** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:02 am

Tragic incident and they can’t really announce anything until they’ve done some kind of identification .i presume he had a pilot as well.
Can’t see it having any relevance to today’s game though and I’d be truly amazed if they called any games off today .

warksclaret · Post by **warksclaret** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 8:18 am

My family are LCFC season ticket holders and I went to the game in place of one of them.Tremendous elation when Leicester scored in the last minute then within time of fans leaving the area this happens. The Chairman is adored by the fans-goes to nearly all games and is close to the players. My son and I heard the helicopter take off as we drove away-little did we know. The fans will be in shock.

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 8:35 am

This is a nightmare.

Best wishes to the families of those involved and everyone connected with LCFC.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:05 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:This is a nightmare.

Best wishes to the families of those involved and everyone connected with LCFC.

A terrible time for all involved the families and friends... thoughts with them all from us Clarets here in Long Preston ......

theroyaldyche · Post by **theroyaldyche** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:38 am

Why havent they announced any deaths? Surely a disaster likr that is unsurvivable