29 Oct 2018
Leicester City owner's family visits stadium

Leicester City helicopter crash: Owner's wife and son visit stadium

  • 29 October 2018
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Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha and mother Aimon Image copyright AFP/Getty
Image caption Mr Vichai's wife Aimon and son Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha visited the King Power Stadium

The wife and son of Leicester City's owner have laid a wreath at the club's stadium after he and four others were killed in a helicopter crash.

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha died on Saturday alongside two members of his staff, the pilot and a passenger.

The helicopter spiralled out of control outside the King Power stadium at 20:30 BST.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said it had recovered the aircraft's digital flight data recorder.

The president of the Thai FA, Somyot Poompanmoung and his wife, Potjaman Poompamoung, joined the club chairman's family to lay flowers outside the ground.

Leicester City's director of football Jon Rudkin and chief executive Susan Whelan also attended.

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Leicestershire Police named the other people killed in the crash as Nursara Suknamai, Kaveporn Punpare, pilot Eric Swaffer and his partner Izabela Roza Lechowicz.

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Image caption Mr Vichai was killed along with four others in a helicopter crash outside the stadium on Saturday