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A woman who survived when a police helicopter crashed into Glasgow's Clutha pub says she hopes an official inquiry will end a five-year wait for answers.

Mary Kavanagh escaped from the wrecked pub on the night of the 29 November 2013 when a Police Scotland aircraft plunged through the roof - but her partner, 61-year-old Robert Jenkins, was killed.

Ahead of the Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) into the crash, Ms Kavanagh told Sky News: "The one thing I want to know is why I walked into the pub that night with Robert and why I walked out and I've been on my own. It's important because it will give me closure.

"I, along with the (bereaved) families and all the survivors of that night, have been living with this for over five years. The fact that there hasn't really been any sort of conclusion... we can't say 'well, this is the reason why this happened.'"

Ten people were killed when the helicopter crashed onto the Clutha, beside the River Clyde.

At the time, more than 100 people were inside the pub and a live band were playing on stage.

Ms Kavanagh told Sky News her account of the night when the Clutha roof fell in, and of the fateful decisions that ended in tragedy.

"That night, we weren't supposed to be in the Clutha. We were in Maggie May's in Merchant City because my brother's band was playing there. About 9.30pm, it became apparent that my brother's band weren't playing, so we decided to come down to the Clutha.

"We arrived in the Clutha about 9.40pm, we weren't drinking alcohol because I was babysitting the next day, so we were drinking cranberry juice and we were drinking it really quickly. I said to Robert 'I've finished that, I'll go and get us another one.' He said 'No, love, if you just wait a minute I'll go'. I said 'okay' and that was the last time I saw him."

"He went to the bar but he went to the toilet first. I was standing speaking to someone and I didn't see him coming back to the bar and, just after 10.20pm, there was a heavy thud and then seconds later a crash. Something came through the roof. Everything went black and very quickly the place filled up with dust. Somebody shouted 'I think one of the speakers has blown' but it was apparent that it was something a lot worse than that. There was some confusion at first but not a lot of panic. Someone managed to get the door nearest the river open and that's where I was standing. I, for some reason, knelt down and managed to find my handbag and I grabbed onto a guy's jacket and I got out."

"I was covered in this grey dust. I was standing outside the pub, really not aware of what had happened. I looked up and I saw the tail of the helicopter sticking out the pub but, in my mind, couldn't quite compute what that was. A few minutes after I got out, people started coming out with head injuries and facial injuries and I was helping people and it just dawned on me all at once that Robert wasn't coming out."

The inquiry into what happened will take place in a conference suite at Hampden Park, Scotland's national football stadium.

It is due to last at least six months and will be put on hold at various points over the coming months because of football matches and live concerts taking place at Hampden.

Proceedings will start with a minute's silence for the victims.

The FAI will be presided over by Sheriff principal Craig Turnbull and is expected to hear from more than 80 witnesses with a list of 1,400 productions.

An FAI is the Scottish version of an inquest.

It doesn't apportion blame but it will seek to establish the cause of the crash.

In its 2015 report, the Air Accident Investigation Branch stated that the pilot, RAF veteran David Traill, hadn't followed emergency protocols and had continued flying despite low fuel warnings.

During the FAI, it is expected that there will be analysis of the design and electronics system of the helicopter as it relates to its fuel system.

In the pub where the helicopter fell, scrutiny of the aircraft will be welcomed.

The owner of the Clutha, Alan Crossan, told Sky News: "We've been getting various different reports, different information... information which, to be honest, has been withheld in lots of ways. I know the families won't get all the answers but I hope they get some."

Bereaved families also want the inquiry to address decisions taken by the emergency services on the night of the crash.

While they don't question the bravery of emergency responders, at least one father has criticised the management of the incident.

Ian O'Prey lost his son, 44-year-old Mark, in the tragedy.

Mr O'Prey told Sky News there was a mismanagement of the accident site that led to the emergency services being pulled back from the wrecked building, while his son was still alive inside.

"Mark's body was, literally, three or four feet from the door. If they had removed the helicopter, or stabilised the helicopter externally... they put all these ridiculous jacks inside the building, they could have stabilised the helicopter, maybe even lifted it out, and took the weight off my son's body.

"He wouldn't have survived anyway, we know that with the extent of his injuries. They tried to extricate him and they couldn't get him out because of all the weight on top of him. He was allowed to die. It was handled incompetently, totally incompetently. The people who were doing it don't get helicopters dropping out the AG百家乐在线官网 every weekend, landing on a pub, and I just don't think they were ready for that at all.

"They should have made every every effort to get (Mark) out and they didn't. They didn't make best use of the resources. Whatever they were doing, they weren't fit for purpose, they got it wrong."