Is Colin McRae dead?

[Snokio]

Chopper crash. Not confirmed though so fingers crossed. It doesn't look good though

http://news.sky.com/skynews/home

[delanvital]

Chopper crash. Not confirmed though so fingers crossed. It doesn't look good though

http://news.sky.com/skynews/home

Aye, I've been stopping at Sky News to check on occasion :sad:

[Anonymous]

Doesn't look good

[Blunt]

Rally champion Colin McRae dies with son in helicopter crash

  Tom Gordon for The Sunday Times

 THE former rally driving champion Colin McRae was killed and his five year-old son feared dead in a helicopter crash yesterday afternoon. The aircraft came down in Jerviswood, Lanarkshire, half a mile from the family's home and burst into flames just after 4pm.
 Jean-Eric Freudiger, McRae's agent, said the 39-year-old driver had been piloting the helicopter himself. Also on board were believed to be his son Johnny, another adult and another child. Police said there were no survivors.
 McRae's wife Alison and their daughter Hollie, 9, were not on board, friends said.
 McRae became Britain's first World Rally champion in 1995. He was one of the country's most successful sportsmen, achieving 25 wins in World Rally events and 42 podium places. He was a flamboyant driver, inspiring one the world's best-selling computer rally games.
 The helicopter came down within half a mile of McRae's home, Jervis House, a 16th-century tower house, which has an adjacent helipad. The weather had been overcast, with a light breeze, but visibility was good.
 Strathclyde police said the extent of the fire damage was making identification a problem.
 McRae's wife, a childhood sweetheart and his former co-driver, was taken back to the house under police escort shortly after 6pm. She looked calm, but neighbours gathering outside the house looked shaken with grief.
 McRae's friend the rally journalist Jeremy Hart who flew with the champion several times described him as a "very good, very measured pilot whose natural ability with machinery was second to none". "Colin regularly flew all over the UK and into Europe," said Hart. "He knew the terrain and conditions at Jerviswood very well. It was the place he flew into most regularly.
 "As a driver Colin was misunderstood slightly as being reckless but everything you saw with him came from pure raw talent as opposed to being learnt. He was the Michael Schumacher of rally driving.
 "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."

timesonline

very sad news

[delanvital]

very sad news

Aye...

[Thulsa Doom]

OMG :crying:

[Bastet]

Dang, thats bad news, he was one of the major characters in the rally championship and had a great nack for setting cars on fire :sad: Sad news....

[Lee]

Such a bad way to go. :sad:

[Bastet]

Such a bad way to go. :sad:

Tbh, at that age any way is a bad way to go. :sad:

[ghoule211]

Is it me or is there something about race car drivers and bad luck with flying

it was only a couple of years ago David C had a near miss.......

thoughts are and prayers for Colin and his family at this difficult time.....

[Doorman]

Tbh, at that age any way is a bad way to go. :sad:

My thoughts as well, almost. I was going to say "Tell me of a good way"
But hey! We all gotta go sometime. it's part of life. Better that, than dragging it out in a 'care' home. The shame is, his son also died in the crash. He didn't get his shot at life. :sad:

[Blunt]

Is it me or is there something about race car drivers and bad luck with flying

it was only a couple of years ago David C had a near miss.......

thoughts are and prayers for Colin and his family at this difficult time.....

Steve Hislop too

[Snokio]

and David Purley :sad:

[Toxteth]

Shame, two very young children. Would have been sad enough with just McRea and his friend.:crying:

[T-Bag]

It's a little shocking, I think being a parent it's very sad. It's better to go out in style than fade away loosing marbles and bladder control along the way, but this seems just too soon.