Scotland Helicopter Crash

[Quhet]

Into a pub it seems
Breaking...

[GALLARDOGUY]

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-11-29/helicopte...

Picture here

[Quhet]

It's not on fire, that's good news I suppose.

[MonkeyHanger]

Witness on Sky News saying it's a police helicopter.

[onyx39]

sky reporting that it's a police helicopter. Sounds like a forced landing.

[oobster]

Woman being interviewed on BBC just said she heard it was a police helicopter.

Hope no-one has been killed or seriously injured.

[onyx39]

[dandarez]

If nobody is injured that will be a miraculous.

Witness said it was police copter spiraling down, rotors not going.
Apparently there is an helipad nearby for amb/police copters.

[carinaman]

Is that the River Clyde shimmering in the background?

[MonkeyHanger]

carinaman said:

Is that the River Clyde shimmering in the background?

[onyx39]

To me, it sounds like a "controlled" ish emergency landing due to engine failure, some people saying it came spiraling down, Fire Service have 15 appliances at the scene, not confirming injuries, but I don't really see how there can't be.

[carinaman]

MonkeyHanger said:

Crikey. I assume if they had some control over it they may have considered putting it down in the Clyde.

But another poster has mentioned the proximity to the emergency service helicopter pad.

[Stenjay]

My wife is currently in a pub in Glasgow city centre so I got a bit of a fright when I saw this story on the news. Fortunately not anywhere near this, hope everyone involved is ok.

[normalbloke]

There will be fatals from this I suspect, given the lack of any fuselage shape left.

[Quhet]

onyx39 said:

To me, it sounds like a "controlled" ish emergency landing due to engine failure, some people saying it came spiraling down, Fire Service have 15 appliances at the scene, not confirming injuries, but I don't really see how there can't be.

Aye, looking at the pictures it's gone straight through. Bound to be very busy on a friday night, horrible.

[dandarez]

Saying now about remarkable no fire (considering fuel onboard) - perhaps it was out of fuel!

[tim0409]

Confirmed that it is a Police Scotland helicopter.

[MonkeyHanger]

dandarez said:

Saying now about remarkable no fire (considering fuel onboard) - perhaps it was out of fuel!

I was just thinking that myself. The police helicopter is based nearby apparently.

[driver67]

A mate's boy was in the pub when this happened. He's out uninjured, no more info.

[onyx39]

Eyewitness is certain it's a plod copter