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Rally driver Colin McRae's 'unsafe and imprudent' flying was to blame for helicopter crash that killed himself, his son and two others

Inquiry finds the crash could have been avoided
McRae's father said the family were in no doubt of his 'prowess as a fine pilot'

The deaths of Colin McRae and three others in a helicopter crash were caused by the former world rallying champion's 'imprudent' flying, a sheriff has ruled.

McRae, 39, his five-year-old son Johnny, the boy's friend Ben Porcelli, six, and Graeme Duncan, 37, all died when the aircraft came down near McRae's home in Lanark on September 15, 2007.

Sheriff Nikola Stewart concluded that the deaths could have been avoided if McRae had not engaged in low-level flying 'when it was unnecessary and unsafe to do so'.