RIP Colin McRae (threads merged)

drmchsraj

drmchsraj

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Colin McRae's helicopter Crashed

Not sure if McRae himself of his brother were onboard.

Update: Crash Helicopter Registered To McRae
Updated: 19:49, Saturday September 15, 2007

A helicopter that crashed in rural Scotland today was registered to rally driver Colin McRae, it has been revealed.
At least one person was feared dead after the aircraft came down near Lanark this afternoon.
It is not known whether the former world rally champion was
onboard.
The Scottish Ambulance Service confirmed that its own helicopter had been
despatched to the scene along with three ambulance crews. Strathclyde Fire Brigade also had units in attendance at the scene.
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A helicopter registered to Colin McRae has crashed in Lanark, Scotland. Its
currently unknown if Colin was onboard the helicopter. Nobody has survived the accident but Sky News is reporting its in such bad shape thats its impossible to tell how many people were on the aircraft at this time.
This is so bad. Just like the way Steve Hislop died if Colin was flying the plan
 
drmchsraj

drmchsraj

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update: It crashed in his own estate


BBC.co.uk wrote:
Two dead after helicopter crash

The Scottish Ambulance Service helicopter attended the scene
Two people are believed to have died after a helicopter crashed in Lanarkshire.
The Twin Squirrel aircraft came down in Jervis Wood near Lanark just after 1600 BST

and was understood to have burst into flames.

A Strathclyde Police spokeswoman said the damage to the helicopter was so bad that

it could not be determined how many people were on board.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch have been called in.

The Scottish Ambulance Service confirmed that its own helicopter had been

despatched to the scene along with three ambulance crews.

The damage has been so bad that we don't know how many people were on board

Strathclyde Police spokeswoman Strathclyde Fire Brigade also has units in

attendance at the scene.

The RAF spokesman said the incident did not involve a military aircraft and added

that its helicopter was on stand-by to assist. A spokesman for the British Airports

Authority said the helicopter did not come from Glasgow or Edinburgh Airports.

The Strathclyde Police spokeswoman said officers were trying to establish who was

on board and where the helicopter was travelling to and from. "The damage has been

so bad that we don't know how many people were on board," she said. "It might be

one, it might be more. We just don't know at the moment."
She added that it could be some time before official identifications can be made.
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drmchsraj

drmchsraj

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it's of this kind.
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update: Apparently they're not going to identify anyone until tomorrow

AFAIK, he is taking part only in the Paris-Dakar rally and there are no rallies anywhere else nearby so it couldn't be that he is out of the country and someone else was flying it. There hasn't been any statement from his family... so *fingers crossed*
 
Phaedrus

Phaedrus

We'll do it live!
RIP to those who died, I hope Colin wasn't one of them. We've lost alot of motorsport stars to helicopter and small plane crashes...
 
Teddy

Teddy

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Just read something...I think it was from digg.com.....that said they think it was McRae and his young son that were on board...nothing confirmed, but I am going to guess they are not far from right. You have to think that if McRae was NOT on the helicopter they would be reporting that immediately. They have spoken with his family....so if they are saying they dont know, sadly it is just because they have not done dental record tests yet...does not look good. RIP to whoever was on that copter.....

This was the blurb from digg.com...

"World rally star Colin McRae and his young son were feared dead after his helicopter crashed and exploded near his Scottish home. The 39-year-old driver was thought to be at the controls of the French-built Squirrel helicopter with his son Johnny, five, as a passenger when it crashed a mile from the family farm in Lanarkshire just after 4pm."
 
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Kestrel

Kestrel

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Man that's awful news =/ I'm a fan of SCCA races, Moto racing in general and Rally stuff... None of the formula / NASCAR nonsense..

Absolute shame - such a skilled driver too. Damn it's awful to hear of legends like this dying...
 
Agent Orange

Agent Orange

The b0y ninja
RIP Colin McRae

http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article2461339.ece

THE former rally driving champion Colin McRae was killed and his five year-old son feared dead in a helicopter crash yesterday afternoon. The aircraft came down in Jerviswood, Lanarkshire, half a mile from the family's home and burst into flames just after 4pm.

Jean-Eric Freudiger, McRae's agent, said the 39-year-old driver had been piloting the helicopter himself. Also on board were believed to be his son Johnny, another adult - said by locals to be a school friend of McRae - and another child. McRae's wife Alison and their daughter Hollie, 9, were not on board, friends said.

Strathclyde police said in a statement: "Four people were onboard the helicopter," adding "The bodies were found within the helicopter which is owned by Mr Colin McRae of Jerviswood House, Lanark. It is believed he was onboard the helicopter."

McRae became Britain's first World Rally champion in 1995. He was one of the country's most successful sportsmen, achieving 25 wins in World Rally events and 42 podium places. He was a flamboyant driver, inspiring one the world's best-selling computer rally games.

The helicopter came down within half a mile of McRae's 16th-century home, which has an adjacent helipad. The weather had been overcast, with southwesterly winds gusting to 30 knots and good visibility.

Officers with dogs and torches continued to comb the woodland near the crash into the night.

McRae's wife, a childhood sweetheart and his former co-driver, was taken back to the house under police escort shortly after 6pm.

McRae's friend the rally journalist Jeremy Hart, who flew with him several times, described him as a "very good, very measured pilot".

"Colin regularly flew all over the UK and into Europe," said Hart. "He knew the terrain and conditions at Jerviswood very well.

"As a sportsman he was a true hero. As a driver Colin was misunderstood slightly as being reckless but everything you saw with him came from pure raw talent as opposed to being learnt. He was the Michael Schumacher of rally driving.

"It's so ironic that he should die in a helicopter crash when he had competed and had brushed with death so many times as a rally driver."
 
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