Helicopter crashes into glasgow pub

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Old Young Man.

Unemployment. Rising prices
Never bothered me before
Now, struggling for subsistance
I slowly realised my wasted years
steeped in ignorance

The brashness of youth has gone
Leaving behind an emptiness
not easy to define
Old before my time
I yearn for contentment

Where has the young lad gone
That angry young man
That shook his fist in careless anger
At any unfair society?
Shall we ever see him again

Write Nice Things.

last night
as I sat by my typewriter
a junkie
climbed in my window,
I was writing a poem
a very interesting little poem
about a flower that I'd seen
that day,
the junkie battered my wife
stole all of our money
and when he left
took with him
my television set
and my hi fi unit,
this unfortunate little incident
rather disturbed me
it really put me off writing
my little poem
about the birds and bees
and the flower that I'd seen
so, I wrote about the wind and the trees
instead

Two of John McGarrigle's poems from his little book, Glasgow's McGarrigle. Fat Cat Publications, ISBN 187 1009 014

Two John McGarrigle poems, from http://www.radicalglasgowblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-clutha-and-john-mcgarrigle.html

 

[equationgirl]

Three of the dead now named, another body has been removed from the pub.

 

[weepiper]

Celtic just gone on the pitch for their cup match with Hearts in Edinburgh, all wearing a black armband.

 

[thriller]

sad as this is, does it really merit headline news on the bbc news website for 3 days running?

 

[equationgirl]

sad as this is, does it really merit headline news on the bbc news website for 3 days running?

fuck off this thread right now, thriller.

 

[agricola]

At the risk of sounding a bit selfish, the horribleness of this does make one realise how very many people were very lucky when the Vauxhall crash occured.

 

[Spymaster]

sad as this is, does it really merit headline news on the bbc news website for 3 days running?

Helicopter crashes onto pub and kills 8 people.

What do you think the BBC should be leading with?

 

[equationgirl]

Four of the dead now named.

 

[laptop]

What do you think the BBC should be leading with?

Maybe: Kiev demonstrators chase off police ?

 

[equationgirl]

I see thriller did a drive-by posting.

 

[equationgirl]

Police have confirmed the helicopter was heading towards the heliport when the crash happened.

 

[weepiper]

death toll now risen to nine following the discovery of another body.

 

[equationgirl]

death toll now risen to nine following the discovery of another body.

Possibly at least one more body still in the bar too.

 

[Nylock]

sad as this is, does it really merit headline news on the bbc news website for 3 days running?

Have a word with yourself, and then give yourself a good hard slap you witless two-bob cunt.

 

[equationgirl]

Also, police have confirmed that the helicopter did undergo an inspection last year after the entire EC135 T2 fleet was warned of cracks in the blades. helicopter was cleared for flight shortly thereafter.

 

[Nylock]

=/

 

[DrRingDing]

Also, police have confirmed that the helicopter did undergo an inspection last year after the entire EC135 T2 fleet was warned of cracks in the blades. helicopter was cleared for flight shortly thereafter.

Last year?

I hope the cunts hovering over my place inspect their fucking toy more often than that.

 

[equationgirl]

Last year?

I hope the cunts hovering over my place inspect their fucking toy more often than that.

Around the middle of last year, if I remember right. A lot of the north sea fleet were grounded whilst the inspections took place.

Wouldn't want to be at Bond or Eurocopter right now to be honest, after all the crashes that have happened over the past few years.

 

[marty21]

sad as this is, does it really merit headline news on the bbc news website for 3 days running?

Maybe you'd prefer more strictly or x factor stories

 

[Citizen66]

I think helicopters will get inspected more frequently than every year.

 

[likesfish]

Helicopters crash thats what they do.
Most aircraft dont actively try to shake them self apart every time you turn the engine on
Been in 4 helicopter incidents although one was a stasi trained buzzard came through the windscreen of a chinook attacked the co pilot Chinook landed quickly exit crew with buzzard that sat in the field for a bit giving everyone evils.
Then flew off eastward back to its communist masters no doubt

 

[tar1984]

These survivor interviews on the news are heartbreaking.

 

[Garcia Lorca]

It must be a nightmare for families waiting for news, it's a long time to wait for confirmation or having the thought of someone buried in there.

I've drove past the gorbals side of the water a couple of times on route to work. Strange silence around, or so it feels. So many have a connection in some way to the Clutha or those who were there.

 

[5t3IIa]

Can watch the helicopter being moved live http://www.channel4.com/news/glasgow-helicopter-crash-lifted-wreckage-pub-video-live

 

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the helicopter has just been removed by crane. it seems fairly intact in some areas, lending weight to the possibility that it briefly landed on the roof in some controlled or semi-controlled manner, rather than just crash like a stone from way up in the sky. that's just my conjecture though.

 

[Pickman's model]

the helicopter has just been removed by crane. it seems fairly intact in some areas, lending weight to the possibility that it briefly landed on the roof in some controlled or semi-controlled manner, rather than just crash like a stone from way up in the sky. that's just my conjecture though.

do you mean you think the pilot was briefly in control of the craft when it landed, or it only landed briefly?

 

[Spymaster]

It must be a nightmare for families waiting for news, it's a long time to wait for confirmation or having the thought of someone buried in there.

True, but better to take their time and get it right than to announce the deaths of people who left the pub pissed and have been sleeping off a hangover all weekend.

 

[Dogsauce]

the helicopter has just been removed by crane. it seems fairly intact in some areas, lending weight to the possibility that it briefly landed on the roof in some controlled or semi-controlled manner, rather than just crash like a stone from way up in the sky. that's just my conjecture though.

Not consistent with witness reports of it tumbling through the air silently.

I'm not particularly comfortable with live TV footage of the recovery, it seems a bit ghoulish and intrusive, people died in and under that craft.

I dislike the way 'rolling news' covers tragedies in general, all wild speculation and bothering of emergency workers and relatives, there seems so little dignity in any of it.

 

[laptop]

True, but better to take their time and get it right than to announce the deaths of people who left the pub pissed and have been sleeping off a hangover all weekend.

Even more, better that no-one finds out from Sky News that their parent is dead...

 

[ViolentPanda]

Last year?

I hope the cunts hovering over my place inspect their fucking toy more often than that.

Full inspections (basically a strip-down, plus full diagnostics on all components, including IIRC x-rays of rotor blades) are annual, but operationally-necessary components are checked weekly, and blade integrity is checked visually before every flight.