12/12/2013

EC-135 Helicopters Grounded For Checks

The EC-135 helicopters, the model which crashed on to the Clutha bar in Glasgow last month and killed nine people, are to be grounded.

The news comes after a fault was found in a helicopter operated for North West Air Ambulance.

Bond Air Services have now made the decision to ground the helicopters, which is understood to apply to 22 UK air ambulance and police helicopters.

An EC 135 operated by Police Scotland came down on the busy Clutha bar at 10.25pm on 29 November. Its three crew members and six people in the pub at the time of the crash died in the incident.

(MH/JP)

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