Damaged tail rotor to blame for helicopter crash in 2018 that killed Leicester owner and 4 others

An accident inquiry says a damaged tail rotor was to blame for a helicopter crash that killed the owner of English soccer club Leicester and four others in 2018. The helicopter took off from the center of the field after a Premier League match at Leicester’s King Power Stadium and got to about 430 feet (130 meters) above the ground. Then it spun around and plummeted into a concrete step outside the stadium. Then-Leicester owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, two club employees, pilot Eric Swaffer and Swaffer’s partner were all killed in the accident. An inquiry by the British government’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch found that the helicopter’s control system failed because a bearing in the tail rotor broke up.