Helicopter crash: Being late saved crane driver

The crane operator only survived yesterday’s Vauxhall helicopter crash in London because he was running late for the first-ever time in his job and had not reached his cabin when the aircraft came down, a lorry driver said.

Paul Robinson, 42, said the man would have been “wiped out” if he had been on time yesterday morning.

Instead, he was still climbing up the crane’s shaft when disaster struck.