re: Leicester announces Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha died in crash outside King Power Stadium

Speculation is that his death could tank the Thai economy so they're being careful with the news.

Scary how the British Government and Police keep info quiet from their people. And can gag the News outlets.

If in USA, we would of known who lived or died, by 8:45pm(crash was 8:30pm locally)

Just think if Southgate had left the match on the copter. He flew on it to the game.

Along with everyone else that was in the copter.

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Because I know that helicopter's have a safety mechanism to land safely even when they lose all power.

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Not exactly. It's called an autorotation maneuver and it's a way to safely land a helicopter that experiences engine failure, but it's 100% on the pilot to execute it, not the helicopter itself

Plus, it sounds like the copter did not have a lot of altitude before it went down, which is kinda necessary to autorotate.

There is also a chart called height velocity curve or as its known as dead man's curve. Basically an area in the aircraft's performance envelope that altitude and airspeed work against a pilot who is executing an autorotation.

The aircraft was fairly new, twin engine Augusta Westland aw169. From what im reading from eyewitnesses it sounds like the aircraft had some kind of tail rotor malfunction which started the aircraft spinning on the way down. One way to counteract this is to reduce or cut power to the engines.

Autorotation with tail rotor problem is no bueno. You need forward airspeed to keep the fuselage straight, otherwise the torque from the main rotor drive makes the fuselage spin opposite the direction of rotation of the main rotor. Confined space take off at night could have hit the tail rotor on a light tower or some wires, it was a car park not a heliport.

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Because I know that helicopter's have a safety mechanism to land safely even when they lose all power.

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You need to patent whatever device you have, because that is FM technology.

I'm a helicopter mechanic who's been involved in one real life engine failure autorotation landing and been on board many times for practice autos. For tail rotor failure autos they usually do a run on landing which needs forward airspeed and some height to play with. LCFC's aircraft didnt have enough of either.

Exactly, that’s what I was getting at with my post.