The newly released Air Accidents Investigation Branch report also details a shout of: 'Hey, hey, hey!' from the rear cabin, where the club's owner were seated before the aircraft plummeted to the ground outside the King Power Stadium.
The AAIB described this as"a catastrophic failure", causing the helicopter to spin quickly, approximately five times.
The AIIB concluded that he had"performed the most appropriate actions", which included raising a lever to reduce the helicopter's pitch angle and"cushion the impact".Four of the five occupants survived the initial impact, but all subsequently died in the fuel fire that engulfed the helicopter within a minute.
Asked if this was"an accident waiting to happen", Adrian Cope, AAIB senior inspector for engineering told reporters:"It was a process which built up continuously.Inspection of the bearing was only required once it had been used for 400 hours, but the helicopter had only been flown for 331 hours at the time of the accident.
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