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Vichai and four others died in the crash just outside the Premier League team’s King Power Stadium in October 2018.
Tributes from supporters rest at a memorial under a portrait of team owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha outside Leicester City Football Club (AP)
The family of former Leicester soccer club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha has filed the largest fatal accident claim in English history after the Thai billionaire died in a helicopter crash in 2018, representatives said Friday.
The High Court claim brought against helicopter manufacturer Leonardo S.p.A. was valued at 2.15 billion pounds ($2.6 billion).
Vichai and four others died in the crash just outside the Premier League team’s King Power Stadium in October 2018.
“My family feels the loss of my father as much today as we ever have done,” said Vichai’s son, Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha. “That my own children, and their cousins, will never know their grandfather compounds our suffering.”
An inquiry by the British government’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) found that a damaged tail rotor led to the crash and ruled out pilot error.
“My father trusted Leonardo when he bought that helicopter but the conclusions of the report into his death show that his trust was fatally misplaced,” said Aiyawatt, who succeed Vichai as chairman of Leicester. “I hold them wholly responsible for his death.”
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