Young British Man Killed By Helicopter Blade While Allegedly Attempting To Take A Selfie

Investigators have ruled out the possibility that Greek helicopter victim Jack Fenton was attempting to take a selfie when he tragically died.

Police and air accident investigators are now exploring the theory that the 22-year-old former public schoolboy forgot his mobile phone while disembarking from the helicopter and rushed back to get it, accidentally turning towards its spinning tail after retrieving it.

A spokesman for Greek police said: “Our investigation is continuing but one of the major areas that we are exploring is that Jack forgot his mobile phone on the helicopter and that’s why he suddenly returned to it.

“We are still in the process of completing our interviews but a number of eye witnesses saw him with a mobile phone in his hand, moments before he was killed. Once our investigation has been completed, we will send the file to the prosecutor who will decide if there are to be any charges.”

Ioannis Kondylis, Chairman of Greece’s Accident Investigation and Flight Safety Committee, which is investigating the accident, revealed in an interview with local media: ‘From the testimonies we have collected, it does not appear from anywhere that the young man wanted to take a selfie but he found himself at the back of the helicopter.

“What is reported is that the 22-year-old was holding a mobile phone and had it to his ear, but it has not yet been clarified whether he was talking or simply returning to join his friends.”

Jack, a former pupil at the £36,000-a-year Sutton Valence boarding school near his home in Kent, was travelling with a group of friends in two private Bell 407 helicopters, where they were scheduled to take a chauffeur ride to the airport for a private jet back to London.

The group had just been on holiday on the party island of Mykonos and had landed on a helipad run by Superior Air just outside Athens on Monday night.

The dismissal of the ‘selfie’ theory by Greek officials follows denials by Jack’s sister Daisy and friends that he was attempting to take one when tragedy struck.

Daisy told reporters: “No one knows exactly what led him back [towards the tail rotor]. Perhaps he forgot something. But the line that he went back to take a selfie is rubbish. It’s a lie.”