I do wonder about the benefits versus risks of flying police helicopters over cities all the time. Have they stopped anything worse than the crashes they've been involved in? It's the same with police car chases. It really needs to be looked at.
Yeah lets let the criminals get away, and not bother using the infrared cameras to track them down. If you don't mind the burglary in progress, robbery and other serious crimes all going up? you don't mind not catching criminals? You want us to live in a society blighted by crime just because of a rare freak accident?
I really can't stand knee jerk comments from the general public, when the next week they are shouting about why the police can't catch people, they can't win with the arm chair critics.
Thanks. The helicopter dropped like a stone out of the sky according to Jim Murphy MP, who witnessed it from a car park.
Sorry I got this report wrong. It was Gordon Smart from the Scottish Sun who was in the car park, not Jim Murphy. Jim Murphy was in the area of the crash and helped at the scene.
I wish he would just keep his insincere clap shut. As if he gives a flying ****.
We all know its his PR team but he sets a precedent. He does it then Miliband and Clegg do it and it becomes a massive rush to grieve, speculate etc etc.
Twitter is excellent for local on scene reports and its dynamic but the conflicting reports we've seen tonight from various twitter users shows how dangerous it can be
Sainsburys post a Happy St Andrews Day - How Will You Celebrate? facebook post and over a 100 people leave negative comments referencing the helicopter crash. Sainsburys apologise and remove the post....madness
We all know its his PR team but he sets a precedent. He does it then Miliband and Clegg do it and it becomes a massive rush to grieve, speculate etc etc.
All the usual suspects sticking their oar in. Can't let a good PR opportunity go to waste.
Very sad. The Clutha was just over the river from my college, it was a regular haunt of mine as a student. Nice old fashioned spit and sawdust pub with good live music. My thoughts are with everyone involved.
Cue same footage on endless loop, talking to experts who don't know the details and a few witnesses who could sum up what they saw in about thirty seconds. Meanwhile all the press previews get cancelled.
Why don't they just have a news flash and wait until they have enough facts, then broadcast it on the hourly bulletin?
Sainsburys post a Happy St Andrews Day - How Will You Celebrate? facebook post and over a 100 people leave negative comments referencing the helicopter crash. Sainsburys apologise and remove the post....madness
Perhaps they were at work at the time and hadn't heard the news, to be fair?
Cue same footage on endless loop, talking to experts who don't know the details and a few witnesses who could sum up what they saw in about thirty seconds. Meanwhile all the press previews get cancelled.
Why don't they just have a news flash and wait until they have enough facts, then broadcast it on the hourly bulletin?
It's a fast developing story and they all want to be first.
Sainsburys post a Happy St Andrews Day - How Will You Celebrate? facebook post and over a 100 people leave negative comments referencing the helicopter crash. Sainsburys apologise and remove the post....madness
Yep. It's my wee girl's 2nd birthday in the morning..perhaps I should cancel? Someone I know was in that pub earlier..she leftan hour or.so before it happened
Sainsburys post a Happy St Andrews Day - How Will You Celebrate? facebook post and over a 100 people leave negative comments referencing the helicopter crash. Sainsburys apologise and remove the post....madness
i think that reveals a lot about their strange way of thinking (the people complaining) :eek:
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A man who was in the Clutha Vaults when helicopter crashed tells us 2 of his friends are in hospital and 1 is unaccounted for. He was at bar.
One witness implying that helicopter landed on roof, then the roof started to come down slowly. Although she says she was round the corner from the impact, listening to the band when it happened.
Somebody posted earlier in this thread that there was a pic of it sitting on the roof and then the next it had gone through it. That might suggest a reasonable crash landing before the roof gave way. That would hopefully be less catastrophic than walloping into the building.
I would imagine it's mechanical as unless the gauge's were faulty then if they were getting low on fuel they could have landed elsewhere, no way they would be able to take a risk like getting back to the helipad on such a low tank.
Glasgow and the surrounding areas has countless parks and open spaces where it could have landed.
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Yeah lets let the criminals get away, and not bother using the infrared cameras to track them down. If you don't mind the burglary in progress, robbery and other serious crimes all going up? you don't mind not catching criminals? You want us to live in a society blighted by crime just because of a rare freak accident?
I really can't stand knee jerk comments from the general public, when the next week they are shouting about why the police can't catch people, they can't win with the arm chair critics.
I wish he would just keep his insincere clap shut. As if he gives a flying ****.
Sorry I got this report wrong. It was Gordon Smart from the Scottish Sun who was in the car park, not Jim Murphy. Jim Murphy was in the area of the crash and helped at the scene.
We all know its his PR team but he sets a precedent. He does it then Miliband and Clegg do it and it becomes a massive rush to grieve, speculate etc etc.
Twitter is excellent for local on scene reports and its dynamic but the conflicting reports we've seen tonight from various twitter users shows how dangerous it can be
Sainsburys post a Happy St Andrews Day - How Will You Celebrate? facebook post and over a 100 people leave negative comments referencing the helicopter crash. Sainsburys apologise and remove the post....madness
I can confirm that it is a police helicopter which has been involved in the tragic accident in Glasgow. #Clutha
All the usual suspects sticking their oar in. Can't let a good PR opportunity go to waste.
Why don't they just have a news flash and wait until they have enough facts, then broadcast it on the hourly bulletin?
Perhaps they were at work at the time and hadn't heard the news, to be fair?
I was more irritated by the people getting offended for the sake of it.
It's still St Andrews Day today and I'm sure Sainsburys meant no disrespect to anyone
Oh I see. Beg pardon.
It's a fast developing story and they all want to be first.
Yep. It's my wee girl's 2nd birthday in the morning..perhaps I should cancel? Someone I know was in that pub earlier..she leftan hour or.so before it happened
i think that reveals a lot about their strange way of thinking (the people complaining) :eek:
A man who was in the Clutha Vaults when helicopter crashed tells us 2 of his friends are in hospital and 1 is unaccounted for. He was at bar.
Somebody posted earlier in this thread that there was a pic of it sitting on the roof and then the next it had gone through it. That might suggest a reasonable crash landing before the roof gave way. That would hopefully be less catastrophic than walloping into the building.
Looks awful
That's the first Police helicopter accident in the UK for a very long time.
When they go wrong,they take no prisoners.
Indeed. Faux outrage
You may as well sit on twitter as opposed to watching the news this morning
Glasgow and the surrounding areas has countless parks and open spaces where it could have landed.
2010. A PSNI chopper crashed on take off. No fatalities
Sadly, helicopter crashes themselves don't seem to be so rare.