'Police' helicopter crashes into Clutha Vaults pub in Glasgow

[xxMATTGxx]

A helicopter, thought to be a police aircraft, has crashed into a pub on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow.

The crash happened at the Clutha Vaults in Stockwell Street.

Jim Murphy, shadow development secretary, said there had been multiple injuries and reported a "pile of people" clambering out of a pub.

Images of the crash on social media sites showed the dark blue helicopter on the roof with yellow "POLICE" insignia on part of the wreckage.

The Police Roll of Honour Trust tweeted "Our thoughts are with the crew of @policescotland SP99 helicopter that has crashed in Glasgow - hoping everyone is alright."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-25163045


Hope everyone is alright. Thoughts are with friends and families either way.

[Calum0812]

Very vague information coming through Twitter at the moment, thoughts are with the families and friends...

[zombies]

noooooooo! not on st andrews day

[Mark]

32 people have been taken to hospital, firefighters are still looking for more casualties

[Gina]

i saw this on twitter last night/this morning
thats awful omg aw well i hope everyone is okay!
like you said rly, thoughts are with the family and friends
what a nasty shock that must've been om

[Matt]

I saw this online at work today, wow that's pretty shocking. Thoughts go out to the people affected

[Calum0812]

32 people have been taken to hospital, firefighters are still looking for more casualties

Further this, unfortunately 1 person has been confirmed dead but BBC have been told at least 3 are dead.

Couldn't have really happened on a worse time, Friday night before St. Andrews Day, pub must have been packed

[Mark]

Further this, unfortunately 1 person has been confirmed dead but BBC have been told at least 3 are dead.

Couldn't have really happened on a worse time, Friday night before St. Andrews Day, pub must have been packed

6 dead according to Sky News now. Apparently more to follow "in the coming hours"

[Lewis]

I've got a long list of family in glasgow. Incredibly unlikely they'd be there though.
Three are dead so far, what a shame. I hope everyone else is doing OK.

edit: apparently to the post above there's six now

[Calum0812]

6 dead according to Sky News now. Apparently more to follow "in the coming hours"

Monday afternoon and it might have been a different story with the pub being empty or very near to empty but it's sad that it happened at the time it did - hopefully that number doesn't rise any more

Edit: Someone I know witnessed this and is a bit of an aviation geek. Says it was abnormally low and there wasn't a lot of movement in the rotors or sound from them. 15 seconds later there was a loud bang.

Hopefully the casualties are few and then they can work on finding out why it happened to stop it happening again.