Police helicopter lifted off crash site in Scotland

The police helicopter that plunged into a pub in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, killing at least nine people was lifted off the building on Monday morning. There was no explosion or fire before the crash on Friday night. The pilot David Traill, a veteran of both Gulf wars who died in the crash, made no mayday call, Sky news quoted Dave Miller, deputy chief inspector of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, as saying. There was no "black box" flight recorder on board but it did have a "significant number of modern electronic systems on board and it may be possible to recover details from those systems," Miller added. The dead included the two police officers and the pilot on board the helicopter, and six others who were in the Clutha bar after the helicopter came through the roof of the lively city nightspot. The venue was packed with more than 100 people listening to a band. Another 32 were injured and sent to hospitals in Glasgow, and 20 of them were later discharged, medical officials said. With the crashed police helicopter removed, a full search can begin inside the damaged building to find any survivors, said the report.