Frustration at Clutha evidence

A senior air accidents inspector has said the search for answers into the Clutha helicopter disaster was “frustrating for everyone” due to a “lack of evidence”.

The police aircraft, which crashed into Glasgow’s Clutha Bar on 29 November 2013, leaving ten people dead, was not fitted with a flight data recorder and was not required to have any such device on board. Giving evidence at the second week of a Fatal Accident Inquiry into the incident, Peter Wivell, senior inspector of air accidents at the Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) said there were questions he and his colleagues were unable to answer about the tragedy.

Four years ago, the AAIB made a raft of recommendations, one of which stipulated that all police helicopters should be fitted with flight recorder systems that would capture a range of data.

The inquiry continues.