The trio could face negligence or manslaughter charges if they told the passengers to disembark when it was not safe.ĭaisy added: 'No one knows exactly what led him back. Pilot Christos Fragkopanagos, head of training at Superior Air in Athens, was at the controls of the ill-fated helicopter.įragkopanagos, head of training at Superior Air in Athens, and ground technicians Salim Milat and Spyros Andriopoulos were arrested but later released by police after giving statements testifying that Jack was escorted inside the airport before he ran back outside. The tourists had flown from Mykonos to the helipad in Spata and were due to take a private limousine to Eleftherios Venizelos airport The air safety chief claimed that according to eye-witnesses, after returning to the helicopter to possibly retrieve something, Jack was on the left side of the helicopter and then went under the tail section when he was hit by its rotor, which was still spinning. He added: ‘The ground staff's voices were also heard by the captain who was inside the helicopter and was wearing headphones. Mr Kondylis claimed that after one of the ground staff saw Jack walking back towards the helicopter he shouted in English: ‘stop, stop, stop.’ According to the testimonies, he was holding a mobile phone which he had to his ear, without us knowing if he was talking to someone.’ What is written and said about selfies is baseless, he didn't say anything to anyone. He added: ‘The young passenger, unknown for what reason, returned to the helicopter. That is, as they said, one ground employee went to the left door, one to the right, they disembarked and escorted them 20 metres to the building.
#Take your shirt off swing it like a helicopter manual#
According to them, it appears that all the regulations stipulated by the helicopter's manual were observed. These are testimonies that must then be cross-referenced. He said: ‘We have taken statements from both the pilot and the two ground staff. Mr Kondylis also provided a more detailed account of the moments leading up to Jack’s death and said that staff from the air company that flew them to Athens insisted that all safety protocols were followed. Pilot Christos Fragkopanagos has been named by local media as the pilot who has been asked to testify over yesterday's tragedy Jack’s friend Jack Stanton-Gleaves, who was in the same helicopter which had flown from Mykonos, also hit back at the police version of events. But the line that he went back to take a selfie is rubbish. The dismissal of the ‘selfie’ theory by Greek officials follows denials by Jack’s sister Daisy and friends that he was attempting to take one when tragedy struck.ĭaisy told MailOnline: 'No one knows exactly what led him back. The group had just been on holiday on the party island of Mykonos and had landed on a helipad run by Superior Air just outside Athens on Monday night. Jack, a former pupil at the £36,000-a-year Sutton Valence boarding school near his home in Kent, was travelling with a group of friends in two private Bell 407 helicopters, where they were scheduled to take a chauffeur ride to the airport for a private jet back to London. Also pictured is Max Savage (left), Jack Stanton-Gleaves (top), Max Stanton-Gleaves (middle left), Tom Aitkin (middle right) and Robin Stanton-Gleaves (right) Jack Fenton (circled) is pictured on holiday in Mykonos with his friends before the tragic accident.
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