In the early hours of Sunday, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service's Assistant Chief Fire Officer Andrew Brodie tweeted that he had just left "multiagency strategic meetings" at Leicestershire Police's HQ.
He described the crash as "clearly serious and tragic", adding: "Please don't speculate on cause or who may be involved. Think of families, friends, responders, and @LCFC and their fans."
◾'I have seen staff in tears' - Reaction to Leicester helicopter crash
One Leicester season ticker holder, who did not wish to be named, said: "I saw Kasper Schmeichel run out first [from the stadium] and then loads of security guards and stewards.
"I was stood outside the ground but it crashed on the other side. I hope everyone is OK."
Freelance photographer Ryan Brown was covering the game and saw the helicopter clear the King Power stadium before it crashed.
He told BBC Radio Leicester: "The engine stopped and I turned round and it made a bit of a whirring noise, like a grinding noise.
"The helicopter just went silent, I turned round and it was just spinning, out of control. And then there was a big bang and then [a] big fireball."
Leo Bruka told 5 Live that he saw two police officers whose car was near the crash scene.
"One of them was looking for something and the other one, he ran straight away to the helicopter and he was trying to break the window," he said.
"Then there is an explosion and they pulled back because the fire was too hot."
Leicester City said the club was assisting police and emergency services and would issue a more detailed statement in due course.
Leicestershire Police said officers are working alongside the ambulance service, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service, the Air Accident Investigation Branch and Leicester City FC to establish the circumstances of the collision.
At the scene
By BBC Sport commentator Ian Stringer
I have seen staff, backroom staff and [the] first team in tears here his evening. The reception area is described as silent, people looking around and crying and not knowing what to do and consoling each other.
I remember the owners taking over. I said hello to them in native tongue, their face lit up. I have generated relationships with them, seen them in Thailand in Bangkok in their home surrounding, they are really nice people.
The chairman looked at me today on the way to the executive box and said "hello and good afternoon".
We were keeping a close eye on him because of the nature of today's game and it is really eerie around Leicester at the minute this evening.
Sky Sports News reporter Rob Dorsett said the helicopter took off from the pitch, as it does after every game.
He said that after a few seconds it appeared to lose control and crashed into the car park just a few hundred metres away.
Another witness said it appeared "the tail propeller wasn't working, putting it into a spin".
◾Leicester and West Ham draw 1-1
Labour MP Jon Ashworth, who represents Leicester South, said he had been in touch with emergency services and thanked them for responding so quickly.
Leicester Mayor Peter Soulsby tweeted that his thoughts and prayers were "with all - particularly owners who've done so much for club and our city".
Former Leicester City and England striker Gary Lineker signed off on Match of the Day by saying it had been a "dreadful day".
Mr Srivaddhanaprabha bought the club in 2010 for £39m.
After Leicester were promoted from the Championship in 2014, said he would spend £180m to get them into European competition in three years.
Leicester City then went on to win the Premier League title in one of the greatest sporting stories of all time, and reached the quarter finals of the UEFA Champions League in 2017.
I’m unfamiliar with the magnitude of impunity required to unlock delusions of omnipotence, but I suppose when you’ve dug yourself this deep into a bottomless pit, digging your way to China seems anything but.
Even if I had not won this lawsuit, which I did win; the facts remain true and unchangeable. Nevertheless, I am happy to have been legally vindicated through the outcome of this litigation, and I feel it is of the utmost importance to clarify and bring to light the following important details of this case.
It has been bandied about, that Mustapha withdrew from his lawsuit against me because it was struck out due to the anti-SLAPP statute. This is a lie as Mustapha was given the go ahead by the Judge to amend his complaint against me, and he was free and clear to continue his legal proceedings against me for the same issue for which he sued me.
We had already exchanged witness lists, evidence lists, and discovery interrogatory responses in preparation for our ultimate procession towards trial when he dropped the case.
He had plenty of time and opportunity since May to drop the case, when the anti-SLAPP statute was fully addressed, but he did not until four months later, at the dying minute of the deadline when we were due to submit our evidence to the court.
The deadline for me to finish submitting my Discovery evidence was September 26.
Mustapha withdrew the case on September 21. Five days before the deadline.
By every measure, Mustapha had no good reason to drop the case at the time which he did. He has the money to pursue the case. He has the feckless supporters. He certainly has the time. What he did not have, which I do, is detailed and irrefutable documentation of what he and his friends did to me.
I quote Mustapha’s own wife directly, when she tweeted publicly in response to my account, that they had so much evidence proving I was lying.
For years, I have been forced to remain silent about the additional evidence in my possession, and look on as my reputation was sullied beyond redemption because of the spectre of this possibly going to court.
Mustapha withdrew from this case without accomplishing any of the following in filing this frivolous lawsuit against me, namely:
⏺He failed to prove that I defamed him.
⏺He failed to get me to recant my statement or apologise.
⏺He failed to get me to delete my blog post.
⏺He failed to get the court to punish me by awarding him damages.
⏺He failed to prove I defamed Bashir.The court threw Bashir off the case as his claim against me was frivolous.
⏺He failed to call any witnesses who could disprove my account of what he did. In fact, the majority of the “witnesses” Mustapha listed were the same men whom I had previously stated raped me.
⏺The court ordered BOTH Mustapha and Bashir to pay my legal fees in the amount of $34,272.19
⏺Mustapha withdrew the case WITH PREJUDICE meaning he can never sue me for saying / writing he and his friends raped me again.
In other words, Mustapha Audu backed down from HIS OWN lawsuit against me with absolutely NOTHING he requested from the court.
My original blog post and subsequent tweets about Mustapha and his friends are still publicly available, and I must call everyone’s attention to the fact that they do not contain even 1% of everything they did. The blog post was over 3000 words long, and it was only a brief summary of what happened in 2007.
If his legal costs can be assumed to be anything similar to mine, then it can be surmised that Mustapha has paid north of $70,000 to achieve nothing.
So, imagine my shock when in the midst of at long last preparing to go to trial to defend my name and reputation with the truth, to be notified that he was suddenly abandoning the case.
There was no out of court settlement between Mustapha and I, nor did I request one.
He did not demand any concessions of me to drop the case, nor did I make any.
It is my concluded opinion that the case was withdrawn strategically to prevent the evidence I have being entered into public court record for anybody to see, as it would be obvious to all upon viewing the evidence, that I was telling the truth, and that everything I said about what they did and more is true.
I did not concede to any demands from Mustapha.
I stand by all of my previous statements and accusations of him and his friends.
I DO NOT apologise.
I attest to the truth of everything I said, and I will never, ever recant.
I waited almost eight years to put this behind me and move forward with my life, and it has now stolen ten years from me.
No innocent person with all the resources he has at his disposal would fail to see a case through to its ultimate conclusion, in the pursuit of clearing their good name.
Yet unfathomably, Mustapha felt it better to let the supposed stigma, ostracism, and distress he ostensibly suffers from being “falsely” accused of raping me, hang over his head and reputation forever, rather than produce any cogent evidence that I am “lying” in court.
I parked at the Dangote car park at Falomo just before Easter and I saw British-Nigerian artist, Polly Alakija painting the pillars underneath the bridge. I later found out that it was part of the Lagos At 50 celebration. The Lagos State Government commissioned her to paint 50 women on 50 pillars in Lagos.
Well, one of those paintings is a painting of Dr Adadevoh. It is opposite the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Lasuth.
Google Honours Dr Ameyo Adadevoh With A Google Doodle On Her Birthday.
Google is marking the birthday of Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh with a Google Doodle. Dr Adadevoh was born on October 27th, 1956.
A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's home pages that commemorates holidays, events, achievements, and people.
Dr Adadevoh is credited with having curbed a wider spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria by placing the patient zero, Patrick Sawyer, in quarantine despite pressures from the Liberian government. She is known for preventing the Nigerian index case from leaving the hospital at the time of diagnosis, thereby playing a key role in curbing the spread of the virus in Nigeria.
On 4 August 2014 it was confirmed that she had tested positive for the virus and she passed away on 19 August 2014.
DissTroy: No. My earlier position is, since the Ministry of Aviation is under the Ministry of Transportation, Amaechi should be there at the commissioning at the Port Harcourt Airport as the Minister "since we don't have a Minister of Aviation". You quoted me without proving me wrong, only mentioning that there's a Minister of State for Aviation [who, as I stated, is led by his boss, the Minister of Transportation).
You said that Amaechi should be there since we don't have a minister of aviation. We have a minister of aviation and his name is Hadi Sirika, so it is wrong to say that we don't have a minister of aviation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirika_Hadi (also see my previous post and note the way Sirika referred to his ministry. I watched the ceremony live).
Rotimi Amaechi did not have to be there since the minister of aviation was present.
In fact, Rotimi Amaechi was at a townhall meeting in Ibadan, answering questions about the Lagos-Ibadan rail line and the Ibadan container terminal.
DissTroy: Actually, the Ministry of Aviation is under the Ministry of Transportation headed by the Minister of Transportation who currently is Mr. Amaechi.
DisGuy: Do you know if that's still feasible for December? They've not done much in the Lagos end....
I only saw the end of his speech (he was saying that he goes between Lagos and Ibadan once a week, telling the audience shortcuts between Lagos and Ibadan and that Apapa will be decongested because goods will be taken to the container terminal in Ibadan by rail) and the beginning of the question session.
I saw 6 or 7 people ask questions before I left because I had other things to do.
Meanwhile Rotimi Amaechi is at a townhall meeting in Ibadan. He is answering questions about the Lagos-Ibadan rail project and the Ibadan container terminal.
Rotimi Amaechi is at a Federal Government townhall meeting in Ibadan. He is answering questions about the Lagos-Ibadan rail project and the Ibadan container terminal.
naptu2: Wike invited Buhari to speak, but Hadi Sirika rushed to the microphone, apologised to Buhari and said that the Ministry of Aviation has a request to make from the Rivers State Government. He said that there's a road that runs through the airport and it poses a security risk. He said that he is humbly requesting the Rivers State Government to rebuild the road outside the walls of the airport.
Wike rushed back to the microphone and said, "In the spirit of the occassion, that road will be rebuilt". And there was a loud applause as the MC called him "Mr Infrastructure".
naptu2: The comissioning of new terminal at Port Harcourt International Airport is live on the NTA. Wike is speaking and Buhari is present.
Wike said that he wanted to make a request, but that the minister of aviation took the request from his mouth.
He wanted to make a request about the domestic terminal, but Hadi Sirika told him that Buhari has ordered him to ensure that the domestic terminal is commissioned before December.
DissTroy: Forget the seeming hate for Buhari by Nyesom Wike, I was actually looking out for Wike's pictures with Amaechi since he's the Minister of Transportation and there's no Minister of Aviation, yet, and it's the later's home state. Wike and Amaechi together; that'd have been interesting.
Hadi Sirika is the Minister of State for Transportation (Aviation).
Sports › Re: Leicester City Owner's Helicopter Crashes Leaving Stadium by naptu2(op): 3:57am On Oct 28, 2018*. Modified: 4:27am On Oct 28, 2018
