Helicopter Crash at Leicester City Ground

The owners Helicopter has apparently crashed in club car park

Doesn't look good. Photos of it in flames are all over Twitter.

Some reports say it was "spinning" as it came down so it's either a tail strike or a rotor/gearbox failure.

Seeing Tweets that the owner and his wife has died

In such situations it always appalls me that there is such intensely speculative and vile nonsense posted on social media. Some of the stuff on there is reprehensible. The facts will be announced at the right time for the right reasons.

Appalling to me too snookered some of the stuff that has been posted by frankly morons. They should be ashamed of themselves

the fact that Skysports news saying the son and vice chairman and the also director of football were not on it. that seems to suggest that the father was on. think the delay is because they have to notify the Thai authorites

Sad news though whoever died on there just thankful it was 90 after the game just imagine if it had been a full car park

Also the pilot, they tend to get forgotten about in these situations

Saying on Sky news that the chairman his daughter 2 pilots and another unamed person were in the helicopter when i crashed

There's some CCTV footage doing the rounds on Twitter which should have been passed to the AAIB and not the likes of Sky News but that's another argument...

Anyway it shows the Aircraft climbing out of the Stadium normally and clearing the structure without incident, so a Tail Strike is very unlikely.

It then climbs out of picture, probably to between 300-400 feet before coming back into view spinning totally out of control and dropping like a rock. It looks like a classic tail rotor failure. Could be mechanical or could be a bird strike.

The rate of descent means they were unlikely to have survived the impact so hopefully they didn't die in the fire.

It has been confirmed that a pin coming loose in the tail rotor is what caused the Leicester city helicopter tragedy.