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6: Helicopter Crashed into my pub - Clutha bar owner Allan Crossan tells his story

Anything Goes with James English

Anything Goes with James English

Society & Culture

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

James Talks to Allan about the tragic event at the Clutha Vaults pub and his unwavering intent, to seek answers that haven't been unveiled about the helicopter crash that killed 10 people and decimated his pub in November 2013.

 

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0:00.0

The And we're on, mate. So it's good today. We've got Alan Crossing.

0:24.0

For anybody that there's no Alan's story.

0:26.0

Alan knows that owns the Clifabar, where tragedy struck five years ago,

0:31.0

where a helicopter crashed into and killed 10 people so

0:34.8

Alan's just on obviously today to tell his story so thanks for coming on Alan

0:39.0

thanks for having him.

0:41.0

Obviously we'll get straight to just ask about the cliff and where the world is and stuff of the night of the disaster?

0:48.0

Well, on the night I wasn't there, I was in the house because a couple weeks before I had a heart attack and I was just

0:56.7

about to go to bed, two minutes past 10 a bit early but three the night but obviously because of the illness so I got a call from the manager and the pub

1:07.3

we severe you to say that well you never spoke to me he spoke to my partner, Gerald, and he said,

1:13.0

don't tell Alan, the roofs came in.

1:17.0

You know, like panicking because he thought it was a structural thing.

1:21.0

And then I got a call two minutes after that saying it's okay. It's

1:26.2

a helicopter it's crashed through the roof and obviously that's panic in the

1:29.8

me guys mind because he's thinking the rescue men that might be my fault. The helicopters

1:35.3

go through the snow my fault. You know it's just a major thing like that. So I hate it

1:40.4

down at the pop I was there in about five minutes I don I was there about a fan away from it.

1:44.0

It was just surrounded by first responders and emergency services.

1:48.0

Within 10 minutes I knew they were fatalities in the place.

1:52.0

I guess that's thinking who may and he knows who minutes I knew there were fatalities in the place.

1:53.0

I guess that's thinking how many, you know,

1:54.8

so you go through the whole night,

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