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Three individuals have been arrested after a 22-year-old British vacationer was chopped to dying by a helicopter blade on the best way dwelling from a luxurious trip on the high-end occasion island of Mykonos.
Jack Fenton discovered himself within the path of the shifting rotorblade on the rear of the helicopter in Spata, based on Greek newspaper Kathimerini. The household have been on account of board a personal jet after the helicopter returned them to the mainland.
The helicopter pilot and two floor technicians have been taken into custody on Tuesday morning on pending prices of manslaughter, based on the Peania Police Division. An investigation is underway into why the world across the shifting blade was not secured, and why the passengers have been allowed to roam the world whereas the helicopter was nonetheless in operation when the unthinkable finish to a luxurious household trip with pals occurred. His cellphone was additionally destroyed within the accident, Greek media reported.
“He was the primary to disembark the Bell 407 helicopter in Athens and as he moved to the again, he was hit within the head by the plane’s small rear rotor,” a senior police official instructed The Instances of London.
The horrific accident occurred after two privately rented helicopters carrying a bunch of Britons ready to land on a helicopter pad after flying in from Mykonos island, police stated in a press assertion.
Fenton and his pals have been within the first helicopter to land and Fenton’s mother and father and different pals have been in a second helicopter that was following the primary. After the younger man was killed, the second pilot made a snap choice to not land and as an alternative flew to Athens the place they have been met by authorities who instructed them of their son’s destiny.
It's unclear whether or not they witnessed their son’s tragic accident.
Fenton has been described within the British press as an Oxford Brookes scholar who beforehand attended the unique Sutton Valence boarding college in Maidstone, Kent.