Fenton Household
Officers in Greece have dismissed studies that a 22-year-old British vacationer who was dismembered when he met with the razor sharp blade of a personal helicopter was making an attempt to take a selfie when he died.
Jack Fenton was killed instantly when the horrific accident occurred Monday night at an airport close to Athens, which is used for personal jets and vacationer aviation. He and family and friends had rented two personal helicopters to return from the celebration island of Mykonos and have been scheduled to return to London by personal jet hours after the accident occurred.
Stories pushed ahead by quite a lot of British tabloids—quoting hypothesis on a neighborhood TV community—and picked up by different shops, urged that Fenton was making an attempt to get one final selfie from his dream Greek island vacation when he died.
His sister Daisy, 20, advised MailOnline: “Maybe he forgot one thing. However the line that he went again to take a selfie is garbage. It’s a lie.”
However late Wednesday Ioannis Kondylis, who's heading the investigation for the Greek police, advised reporters and confirmed to The Day by day Beast via an English-speaking spokesperson, that he was not taking a selfie however that he might have left his cellphone or one thing contained in the helicopter and had gone again to retrieve it.
“From the testimonies we've got collected, it doesn't seem from wherever that the younger man needed to take a selfie,” Kondylis mentioned. “What's reported is that the 22-year-old was holding a cell phone and had it to his ear, but it surely has not but been clarified whether or not he was speaking.”
Kondylis mentioned that Fenton did initially observe the opposite passengers towardsthe Lolo Airfield terminal however spontaneously returned to the Bell 407 chopper, ducking his head beneath the tail of the small plane. The skinny tail blade spins at round 500 revolutions a second and would have been tough to see.
He additionally reiterated that from interviewing the bottom crew and pilots, all written procedures have been adopted, suggesting adjustments may be within the works for the favored vacationer personal air journey trade. “One floor worker went to the left door, one to the fitting, they disembarked and escorted them 20 meters to the constructing,” Kondylis advised reporters, in accordance with a number of shops. “Then one stayed with them and the opposite floor attendant returned to the helicopter. The younger passenger, unknown for what cause, returned to the helicopter. We don’t know why he got here again.”
Kondylis mentioned Fenton mentioned nothing to anybody. “In accordance with the testimonies, he was holding a cell phone which he needed to his ear, with out us understanding if he was speaking to somebody,” he added. “When one of many floor employees noticed him strolling in the direction of the helicopter he shouted loudly in English, ‘Cease, cease, cease’ however he didn’t hear.”
The pilot additionally heard the warning from the bottom employees, Kondylis mentioned, implying that if the pilot may hear them with headphones on, they have been shouting loudly.
Police at the moment are going via surveillance footage from cameras current on the helicopter pad to additional decide whad led to the second of affect.