A helicopter crash in London fell on a busy street in central London during the morning rush hour, killing two people and injuring nine others, leaving witnesses startled and many thought it was a bomb explosion.
The helicopter crashed into a construction crane near the new US embassy that is being built. Authorities have however ruled out that the crash was a possible terror threat.
The pilot and one person on the ground were killed and 13 others injured one critically, officials said. Several people were taken to a nearby hospital with "minor injuries," London Ambulance Service added.
The helicopter crashed just south of the River Thames near the Underground and mainline train station at Vauxhall, and near the British spy agency MI6.
"I thought it was a bomb," eyewitness Andrew Beadle told the BBC. "I literally looked up as I heard this massive noise and saw the helicopter blades go down."
"There was a massive explosion," another eyewitness t said in the minutes after the helicopter crash. "There's at least three cars are on fire. ... It's madness, absolute madness. ... There was chaos.''
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said tonight lighting of cranes and tall buildings will be reviewed, but that it would be 'premature' to second guess the investigation into today's helicopter smash.
'It's a bit too early to draw conclusions from this accident about this or that tall building.
'What is inevitable is that we'll want to review all our policies, we'll want to look at the way we illuminate tall buildings, the way cranes are illuminated, to make sure nothing went wrong in this case and make sure nothing goes wrong in the future,' Mr Johnson said.
