📰 Auto News VERY sad wrc news.....

[IDAFC21]

http://www.rally-live.com/wrc/en/headlines/news/detail/070916003118.shtml

It is with sad news that we report that 1995 World Rally Champion Colin McRae (MBE) has been killed in a helicopter crash close to him home.

The Times reports that his five-year old son was also feared to have suffered fatal injuries in the tragic accident. Two other people were believed to have been on board.

"It's so ironic that he should die in a helicopter crash when he had competed and had brushed with death so many times as a rally driver,” the same publication reports friend and rally journalist Jeremy Hart as saying.

According to Sky News McRae was the registered owner of the helicopter and was an experienced flyer. The Press Association reported that there were no survivors in the accident, and that air crash investigators were heading to the scene.

:wtc: :wtc: :wtc: :wtc: RIP man. shit

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[Mook]

holy shit :wtc: :wtc:

 

[Bru]

Oh no, that's horrible. :wtc:

 

[IDAFC21]

jesus christ what the hell is going on here.

http://www.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/070916224659.shtml

24 hours after former World Rally Champion Colin McRae was killed, Prodrive chief David Richards survived a helicopter crash when returning from the Belgian Grand Prix.

Richards, McRae's former boss at Subaru WRT, was returning to Essex in the UK from Spa Francorchamps with his wife when the helicopter he was piloting suffered a fault.

They crash-landed in a field and the aircraft turned onto its side, but police confirmed that Richards - to take his Banbury-based outfit into Formula One next year - and his wife Karen 'walked out of the wreckage'.

They were treated for shock but unhurt, according to BBC reports.

"David and Colin were great friends and it's an amazing coincidence that this has happened," a Prodrive spokesman said. "We are just thankful he and Karen are okay."

can we just keep people out of helicopters already? these fucking things are always going down. thank god hes alright

 

[bluzohh6]

sad day