The British company that operates helicopters for the Scottish police has grounded its worldwide fleet of 38 Eurocopter EC135s following a technical fault in a helicopter identical to the one that crashed through the roof of a Glasgow pub late last month.
A Bond Aviation EC135 leased to the police crashed at around 10:20 p.m. on November 29, killing three crew members and seven people inside the packed building. A witness described hearing a noise like a loud misfiring car followed by silence. He said he also saw the helicopter descending at a high vertical rate.
