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| Investigators have found no evidence of engine or gearbox failure in the police helicopter which crashed into a busy pub in Glasgow, killing nine people. | |
| Preliminary findings from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) found the main and tail rotors were not rotating at the time of impact. | |
| The report also stated the Police Scotland helicopter had about 95 litres of fuel when it crashed on The Clutha. | |
| The three crew and six people in the bar died in the crash on 29 November. | |
| The report said that the helicopter took off at 20:45 with 400kg of fuel on board. | |
| It stayed over an area of Glasgow's south side for about 30 minutes before making a short 10 minute foray over Dalkeith in Midlothian, some 38 nautical miles away. | |
| The helicopter was granted permission to re-enter Glasgow air space at 22:18. | |
| The report said: "No further radio transmissions from the pilot were received. Radar contact with the helicopter was lost at 22:22." | |
| Around this time the helicopter was seen and heard by a witness who described hearing a noise like a loud "misfiring car". | |
| The report continued: "He then saw the helicopter descend rapidly. It crashed through the roof of The Clutha Bar, a single storey building on Stockwell Street in central Glasgow." | |
| In its preliminary engineering investigation, the AAIB report said: "The initial evidence indicated that the helicopter struck the flat roof of the single storey building with a high rate of descent and low/negligible forward speed. | |
| "Preliminary examination showed that all the main rotor blades were attached at the time of the impact but that neither the main rotor nor the fenestron tail rotor were rotating." | |
| The report said the helicopter suffered "very extensive damage" during impact but remained "approximately upright". | |
| The AAIB said it managed to conduct a preliminary examination of the wreckage within The Clutha but "the state of the building limited the extent to which examination of the helicopter was possible in situ". |