Helicopter Crash

[rockyracoon]

Just seen in Sky News, a helicopter has crashed into a crane in Vauxhall, London, how awful!

[emmie]

some on here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21040410

[rockyracoon]

Only pilot on board apparently but it hit two cars, don't know if anyone was in them :(

[Ratty2E]

It happened at 8 this morning so it's quite likely there would be cars etc travelling on the road. I have been watching it on Breakfast, it looks awful I fear some poor souls may not have made it to work this morning.

[netibiza]

SW trains running as normal after a slight delay!

[ummmm]

It looks pretty bad.

[rockyracoon]

Awful isn't it ratty, a resident was just being interviewed, she said it was her worst fear realised as the helicopters fly too close.

[rockyracoon]

I hate helicopters!

[ummmm]

Do you? Why?

[murraymints]

I hate them too..once took night flight over New York...terrifying !

[rockyracoon]

Ummmm, they just don't seem safe to me.

Apparently, the crane driver was late for work this morning, how lucky is he?

[Ratty2E]

Now they say it could have been freezing fog that may have caused a failure in the helicopter. However it happened it is a tragedy and we can only hope the toll is not as bad as initial pictures suggest.

[emmie]

i have long worried that this would happen, London is a massively built up city, and we hear helicopters going over our homes all the time. Mostly they are the police, and sometime news broadcasters, add into the mix many very tall buildings are going up, like the shard, I wonder that this hasn't happened before.

[rockyracoon]

Minty, I refused to go on one when we went to NY.

[tonyav]

Terrifying minty, a night flight over New York sounds great to me, I'd love it.

[netibiza]

I wouldn't like to go for a ride in a helicopter, but if it was my only means of escaping something, then I would!

[rockyracoon]

Let's hope so Ratty.

[murraymints]

when you have a morbid fear of heights..terrifying,believe me..

[emmie]

more on here, it looks awful

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21040807

[jno]

I went on a helicopter flight over London last year and it was great. But this one was apparently flying in cloud/mist of some sort and didn't see the top of the crane, which was protruding above the building (as they do). I guess buildings are marked on maps but cranes are not. I think this was somewhere near the heliport.

[emmie]

i had the chance some years ago to go on a helicopter ride, not in London, and turned it down, my idea of hell.