Simviation Forum - Chelsea FC Honorary VP in helicopter crash

May 2^nd, 2007 at 7:52am

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6614347.stm

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Reply #1 - May 2^nd, 2007 at 11:25am

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Whilst I do feel for the people involved, I can't help to think that if there was no football connection, just like every other GA crash, it would have made a news footnote and not dominated the news all day.

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Reply #2 - May 2^nd, 2007 at 12:19pm

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expat wrote on May 2^nd, 2007 at 11:25am:

Whilst I do feel for the people involved, I can't help to think that if there was no football connection, just like every other GA crash, it would have made a news footnote and not dominated the news all day.

Well that's the nature of the media. If someone famous or important is involved, it's going to be a bigger story.

If your favourite band were involved in a crash, you'd want to know about it, as would a lot of other people. But I can't see the need to know that "Mr S. from Birmingham" has just crash landed in his Cessna.

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Reply #3 - May 4^th, 2007 at 5:31pm

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expat wrote on May 2^nd, 2007 at 11:25am:

Whilst I do feel for the people involved, I can't help to think that if there was no football connection, just like every other GA crash, it would have made a news footnote and not dominated the news all day.

Matt

More noteworthy due to the fact he is the second very rich Chelsea supporter/benefactor to be killed in a Squirrel returning from evening match - the previous being Matthew Harding in 1996.

Very sad indeed.

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