Glasgow Crash Helicopter Lifted From Pub

A crane has lifted the wreckage of a police helicopter from the roof of the Glasgow pub where it crashed on Friday.

Nine people died when the three-tonne Eurocopter crashed into the Clutha pub late on Friday evening and 32 were injured. More than 100 people were in the pub listening to a ska band when the helicopter hit.

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service assistant chief officer David Goodhew said: "Crews have been tunnelling underneath the helicopter to try to find further casualties and remove those where necessary.

"The helicopter is sheeted up. It's extensively damaged."

Once it was removed crews were immediately put back into the building to complete their search  which was expected to take 90 minutes to two hours.

Mr Goodhew said: "The building has been totally devastated. It's totally unrecognisable in most parts.

"There's a large amount of debris that's underneath the helicopter and therefore you have to dig in slowly and methodically.

"Crews have been working tirelessly. We've been rotating crews, we've used specialist crews, urban search and rescue, every rescue crew.

Chains are attached to the craft to begin the lift.

"They have been committed to the building the whole time, trying to search."

He said: "It's one of the most difficult operations, I think, of this type in the country.

"The helicopter has landed in a building that's fully packed.

"It has been damaged in such a way that it couldn't just be lifted.

"We've had to tunnel underneath the helicopter to try and find casualties but also in order to make the helicopter safe to lift.

"It's been in an unsafe, unstable condition throughout.

"Effectively the helicopter has had to be held together with straps."

Five of the dead have been named as pilot David Traill, 51, police officers Kirsty Nelis, 36, and Tony Collins, 43, and 48-year-old Gary Arthur from Paisley and Samuel McGhee, 56, from Glasgow who were in the pub.

They were not able to be removed until the helicopter had been taken away.

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