Ferrari Mailing List: Re: McRae and son killed in crash

[Fellippe Galletta (fellippe.galletta]

Wow. Very sad.

RIP to the great rallyer and his family.


On 9/16/07, Britt2Asa [at] aol.com <Britt2Asa [at] aol.com> wrote:
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> This happened last night. Surprised nobody mentioned it but here it is....
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> Rally driver Colin McRae and two children - one his five-year-old son -
> died
> in the helicopter crash near his country home, police said.
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> 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.
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> 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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> 1980 400i (RHD 72,000 miles)
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> 1991 Alfa Spider S4
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