Smoke pours from the burning debris of a helicopter which crashed in the Vauxhall area. The helicopter appeared to hit a crane attached to the nearby St Georges Wharf Tower before plunging into the road below during the morning rush hour.
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Smoke pours from the burning debris of a helicopter which crashed in the Vauxhall area. The helicopter appeared to hit a crane attached to the nearby St Georges Wharf Tower before plunging into the road below during the morning rush hour.
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Londoner Christopher Jen was at Vauxhall Tube station en route to his marketing job when he spotted smoke rising from an area nearby. A helicopter had clipped a crane atop a building and plunged to the ground, killing two people and injuring several others, police later said. "We could hear all the sirens and you could smell the smoke as the train went past the site," he said. "The station announcers did tell us that there was a helicopter crash at Vauxhall and the engineers had to go check the tracks before we could leave."
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Londoner Christopher Jen was at Vauxhall Tube station en route to his marketing job when he spotted smoke rising from an area nearby. A helicopter had clipped a crane atop a building and plunged to the ground, killing two people and injuring several others, police later said. "We could hear all the sirens and you could smell the smoke as the train went past the site," he said. "The station announcers did tell us that there was a helicopter crash at Vauxhall and the engineers had to go check the tracks before we could leave."
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Debris is pictured beside a fire fighting vehicle at the scene of a helicopter crash.
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Debris is pictured beside a fire fighting vehicle at the scene of a helicopter crash.
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Emergency services at the scene after a helicopter reportedly collided with a crane attached to St Georges Wharf Tower in Vauxhall.
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Emergency services at the scene after a helicopter reportedly collided with a crane attached to St Georges Wharf Tower in Vauxhall.
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Emergency services at the scene after a helicopter reportedly collided with a crane attached to St Georges Wharf Tower in Vauxhall, on January 16 in London, England.
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Emergency services at the scene after a helicopter reportedly collided with a crane attached to St Georges Wharf Tower in Vauxhall, on January 16 in London, England.
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Fog surrounds a damaged crane attached to St Georges Wharf Tower after a helicopter reportedly collided with it.
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Fog surrounds a damaged crane attached to St Georges Wharf Tower after a helicopter reportedly collided with it.
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Smoke billows over central London's Vauxhall Cross area after a helicopter crash on the morning of January 16.
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Smoke billows over central London's Vauxhall Cross area after a helicopter crash on the morning of January 16.
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Map shows the location of the crash.
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Map shows the location of the crash.
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CNN journalist Nick Thompson shot this and other images of the aftermath of a helicopter crash in Vauxhall, London, that has left two people dead.
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CNN journalist Nick Thompson shot this and other images of the aftermath of a helicopter crash in Vauxhall, London, that has left two people dead.
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