Ferrari Mailing List: McRae and son killed in crash

[Britt2Asa (Britt2Asa]

This happened last night. Surprised nobody mentioned it but here it is....


Rally driver Colin McRae and two children - one his five-year-old son - died 
in the helicopter crash near his country home, police said.

Strathclyde Police said they now know the 39-year-old former world champion, 
his son Johnny, and two family friends died in the aircraft which burst into 
flames in Lanark, Scotland, on Saturday afternoon.The other victims were named 
as six-year-old Ben Porcelli, of Lanark, and Graeme Duncan, 37, who lived in 
France.The Twin Squirrel helicopter which McRae owned came down about 4.10pm, 
bursting into flames and starting a massive fire.

It was returning to McRae's home at Jerviswood from a nearby visit to the 
village of Quarter when the aircraft got into difficulty, police said.Chief 
Superintendent Tim Love, divisional commander of Strathclyde Police's South 
Lanarkshire Division, said: "We believe that the group were just returning from 
a 
visit to the nearby village of Quarter around 4.05pm yesterday, when it appears 
that the helicopter got into difficulty and crashed within the grounds of Mr 
McRae's family home."Our officers are working closely with the Air Accident 
Investigation Team who are presently at the scene."Family Liaison Officers have 
been appointed and are with the families to help them through this distressing 
and difficult time."A team of air accident investigators are spending the day 
at the scene examining the wreckage.Strathclyde Police initially said that the 
damage was so bad from the accident that they didn't know how many people were 
on board. A team of around 40 firefighters were at one point dealing with the 
fire from the blast.








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