Horrifying Footage Jack Fenton British Tourist, 22, Killed by Helicopter Blade ‘While on His Phone’
- 2 years ago
The British tourist killed by helicopter rotor blades in Greece has been photographed posing happily with his friends on the party island of Mykonos just before his fateful trip to Athens, which ended in horror.
Jack Fenton, 22, was struck while walking behind the Bell 407 helicopter while the engine was still running at 6:20 p.m. m. in Athens yesterday, after flying back from the tourist hotspot with three public school friends in the helicopter piloted by Christos Fragkopanagos.
Greek investigators had said the Oxford Brooks student ran back onto the tarmac after safely disembarking so he could take a selfie, despite warnings from ground staff, and accidentally collided with a buzzing blade.
Fragkopanagos, head of training for Superior Air in Athens, and ground technicians Salim Milat and Spyros Andriopoulos were arrested but later released by police after testifying that Jack was escorted into the airport before running off.
The trio could face negligence or manslaughter charges if they told passengers to disembark when it was unsafe.
But Jack Stanton-Gleaves, 20, who was in the helicopter with his friends James Yeabsley, 19, and former Bournemouth University student Max Savage, 20, refuted the police version of events and of the pilot.
Jack, whose father, Robin Stanton-Gleaves, is owner and chairman of the National League's Bromley FC, told MailOnline: "No instructions were given when we got out of the helicopter and no one accompanied us to the lounge. All they did was open the doors for us.
“We landed alone and no one stopped Jack from going to the back of the helicopter. None of us made it to the salon before the accident happened.
“I heard people say that Jack was on his phone and he ran back to the helicopter and this is totally untrue. He wasn't on the phone and I don't know why he turned to the back of the helicopter.
Jack's mother Victoria, speaking from her home in Tonbridge, Kent, told MailOnline how the family is "completely devastated" at the loss of their "wonderful boy" who attended the £36,000-a-year Sutton Valence boarding school in Maidstone. .
Jack Fenton, 22, was struck while walking behind the Bell 407 helicopter while the engine was still running at 6:20 p.m. m. in Athens yesterday, after flying back from the tourist hotspot with three public school friends in the helicopter piloted by Christos Fragkopanagos.
Greek investigators had said the Oxford Brooks student ran back onto the tarmac after safely disembarking so he could take a selfie, despite warnings from ground staff, and accidentally collided with a buzzing blade.
Fragkopanagos, head of training for Superior Air in Athens, and ground technicians Salim Milat and Spyros Andriopoulos were arrested but later released by police after testifying that Jack was escorted into the airport before running off.
The trio could face negligence or manslaughter charges if they told passengers to disembark when it was unsafe.
But Jack Stanton-Gleaves, 20, who was in the helicopter with his friends James Yeabsley, 19, and former Bournemouth University student Max Savage, 20, refuted the police version of events and of the pilot.
Jack, whose father, Robin Stanton-Gleaves, is owner and chairman of the National League's Bromley FC, told MailOnline: "No instructions were given when we got out of the helicopter and no one accompanied us to the lounge. All they did was open the doors for us.
“We landed alone and no one stopped Jack from going to the back of the helicopter. None of us made it to the salon before the accident happened.
“I heard people say that Jack was on his phone and he ran back to the helicopter and this is totally untrue. He wasn't on the phone and I don't know why he turned to the back of the helicopter.
Jack's mother Victoria, speaking from her home in Tonbridge, Kent, told MailOnline how the family is "completely devastated" at the loss of their "wonderful boy" who attended the £36,000-a-year Sutton Valence boarding school in Maidstone. .