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Leicester City helicopter crash: Owner's wife and son visit stadium | Leicester City helicopter crash: Owner's wife and son visit stadium |
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The wife and son of Leicester City's owner have laid a wreath at the club's stadium after he was killed alongside four others in a helicopter crash. | |
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, two members of staff, the pilot and a passenger, all died after the aircraft spiralled out of control outside the ground. | |
The club's first team and youth squad are also at the King Power stadium. | |
A team investigating Saturday night's crash have recovered the aircraft's digital flight data recorder. | |
Leicestershire Police named the other people killed in the crash as Nursara Suknamai, Kaveporn Punpare, pilot Eric Swaffer and his partner Izabela Roza Lechowicz. | Leicestershire Police named the other people killed in the crash as Nursara Suknamai, Kaveporn Punpare, pilot Eric Swaffer and his partner Izabela Roza Lechowicz. |
The club chairman's wife Aimon and son Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha were joined at the ground by the president of the Thai FA, Somyot Poompanmoung and his wife, Potjaman Poompanmoung. | |
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said inspectors would be at the crash site until the end of week before transporting the wreckage to specialist facilities in Farnborough. | |
"In the meantime, we are still gathering evidence as part of our investigation," a spokesman said. | "In the meantime, we are still gathering evidence as part of our investigation," a spokesman said. |
Witnesses have been urged to contact Leicestershire Police. |