Fatal accident inquiry into Clutha disaster to begin next April

Fatal accident inquiry into Clutha disaster to begin next April

A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the Clutha helicopter crash will begin next April in Glasgow.

Three people on a Eurocopter EC 135 died when it crashed into the Clutha bar in Glasgow in November 2013. Seven people inside the pub were also killed.

Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull has made an order setting out the arrangements for the holding of the FAI.

The inquiry will commence on Monday 8 April 2019 at Hampden Park.

The first preliminary hearing will be held on 3 October 2018 at 10am. Further preliminary hearings have been fixed for 4 and 5 December 2018; and for 5 and 6 February 2019.

The inquiry will look into the deaths of Gary Louis Arthur, Anthony Lyndon Collins, Joseph Robert Cusker, Colin Gibson, Robert James Jenkins, John McGarrigle, Samuel Bell McGhee, Kirsty Mary Nelis, Mark Edward O’Prey and David Iain Traill.

Last November, the Crown Office announced that no criminal proceedings would be brought over the incident.

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