The crash occurred on 27 October 2018, about an hour after a house recreation with West Ham United, when the plane took off from the membership’s King Energy Stadium and crashed shortly after.
Stewarts stated Excessive Court docket motion had been launched on Friday.
An inquest into the deaths is ready to start on Monday, greater than six years later, with eyewitnesses, emergency service workers and company witnesses all set to provide proof in entrance of a jury.
A report by the Air Accidents Investigation Department (AAIB), revealed in September 2023, discovered the crash was “inevitable” after a sequence of mechanical failures, and stated the pilot might have finished “little or no” to save lots of everybody on board.
Chief inspector of air accidents on the AAIB, Crispin Orr, stated Mr Swaffer did what he might to regulate the Leonardo AW169 helicopter, however the catastrophic failure in a bearing within the tail rotor resulted within the plane making a pointy proper flip.
Because the helicopter – which had reached an altitude of about 430ft (131m) – was turning uncontrolled, a shout of “hey, hey, hey” got here from the rear cabin, the place Mr Vichai and his staff have been seated, the AAIB stated.
In plane voice recordings, Mr Swaffer was heard to say: “I’ve no concept what is going on on”, shortly earlier than the helicopter crashed right into a concrete step.
