Possibly a police helicopter...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g ... t-25163045

Definitely a Police Helicopter according the early morning news.

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Sounds to me like it ran out of fuel.

For years now I have wondered when one of these police helicopters would come crashing down into a built-up area. They frequently fly so very low over housing etc. And if anything goes wrong there is little time for the pilot to take avoiding action.

Once a helicopter has issues then there are few options but a downward spiral.

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There's a waffling ballbag on BBC News saying that in his experience the police helicopter doesn't normally try to land on pub roofs, so this must've been an emergency.
Where do they get these people from?

I saw this 'expert' this morning. I reckon he must be paid by the word as he took a very long time to say he didn't know anything more than I did about the incident (Other than the aircraft was 7 years old)

I agree with Westonman that it was only a matter of time. Other than air ambulances, there are no other helicopters that spend so much time over built up areas than a Police aerial support units. Moving slowly, low and in tight circles, there's very little chance of a recovery following a problem

London emergency helicopters spend most of their flying hours over homes and businesses compared to those used on business flights, or even the military. I am a little surprised it is a Police helicopter that has crashed though. OK they fly at night where air ambulances don't, but the medical choppers land in the most unbelievable gaps, and sometimes for less than urgent reasons

I saw London's HEMS land on the Harrow Road near Kensal Green tube station. It's downdraft caused two shop windows to be 'sucked' in into the street. It was early on a Saturday morning so not many people were around, but IMHO that was rather too much risk, bearing in mind they were only landing so their doctor could certify a body on the railway as dead. The body had been severed by a train and the two main parts of the torso were 25 to 30m from each other. It was more than obvious that life was extinct and the attendance of a land based doctor would have been more appropriate and safer! And I saw the after effects of when a helicopter blade struck a lamppost on the M4.

An air ambulance has crashed before in the sticks (hit electric cable I think), but I reckon it wont be long before a Glasgow type incident happens to an ambulance landing in a city centre

Latest is 8 dead including the 3 occupants of the chopper

I agree that these are probably amongst the best maintained so who knows?

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If the pilot turns out the be English Salmond will be in overdrive mode!!

English Kamikaze pilot crashes into pub and kills a number of patriots who were all voting yes for independance.

I was googling yesterday to see if anyone else shares my theory that it ran out of fuel and stumbled across all sorts of weird conspiracy theories on the David Icke forums. However, the Mirror and Times had articles suggesting he may have run out of fuel, maybe because of a faulty fuel gauge. Residents said it had spent about an hour hovering over a railway line.