PILOT WAS TEXTING BEFORE HELICOPTER CRASH WHICH KILLED HIM

A helicopter pilot had been texting before he hit a crane in fog, killing himself and a man on the ground, writes Ben Glaze in the Sunday People.

 Pete Barnes, who flew choppers in films such as Bond movie Die Another Day, died when his copter clipped a crane’s arm, plunged 700ft to the street and burst into flames. 

Rentokil worker Matthew Wood, 39, was also killed in the accident at Vauxhall, South London. Mr Barnes’s last text was to tell a business client who had hired the chopper he could not pick him up in Elstree, Herts, due to bad weather.
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