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Glasgow helicopter crash: Clutha death toll rises to 10 | Glasgow helicopter crash: Clutha death toll rises to 10 |
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One of the people seriously injured in the Glasgow helicopter crash has died in hospital, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to 10. | |
Joe Cusker, 59, of Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, died on Thursday in Glasgow Royal Infirmary. | Joe Cusker, 59, of Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, died on Thursday in Glasgow Royal Infirmary. |
He had been in the Clutha bar when the Police Scotland helicopter crashed into it at 22:25 on 29 November. | |
News of Mr Cusker's death came as Bond Air Services, which operated the EC 135 helicopter, grounded the model. | |
Flights of the EC 135 were suspended after a fault was found on a Bond helicopter operated for North West Air Ambulance. | |
Bond has said the grounding was not related to the Glasgow crash. | |
Mr Cusker's death was confirmed on Thursday by Police Scotland. | |
Dep Ch Con Rose Fitzpatrick said: "It is with great sadness that I can confirm the number of people who died when the helicopter came down on the Clutha Vaults pub has increased to 10. | |
"Our thoughts are with families at this difficult time and we will continue to provide support to them as we have done for all of the bereaved." | "Our thoughts are with families at this difficult time and we will continue to provide support to them as we have done for all of the bereaved." |
Mr Cusker, who was a member of the management committee at Rutherglen and Cambuslang Housing Association, is the seventh person inside the bar to have died. | |
The six others were Robert Jenkins, 61, Mark O'Prey, 44, Colin Gibson, 33, John McGarrigle, 57, Samuel McGhee, 56, and Gary Arthur, 48. | |
The three helicopter crew who died in the tragedy were pilot David Traill, 51, and PCs Kirsty Nelis, 36, and Tony Collins, 43. |