Yesterday’s tragedy struck barely a year after the Clutha Bar helicopter crash in the city.
Ten people died when a police helicopter crashed on to the roof of the pub on November 29 last year – and the Clutha, to this day, remains almost exactly how the emergency services left it.
All three people who were on board the Police Scotland helicopter, constables Kirsty Nelis, 36,and Tony Collins, 43, and pilot David Traill, 51, were killed.
Six people inside the pub – Robert Jenkins, 61, Mark O’Prey, 44, Colin Gibson, 33, John McGarrigle, 57, Gary Arthur, 48, and Samuel McGhee, 56 – died as debris fell from the roof.
Joe Cusker was pulled from the wreckage alive, but died in hospital.
More than 30 people were taken initially to hospitals across the city.
A year on from the helicopter crash, the friends and families of those who were killed say they still have no answers about what happened as the aircraft was not carrying a black box.
But air accident investigators say the final report into the crash is expected to be published by the middle of next year.
At a memorial service one year on from the accident, Philip Tartaglia, the Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow, said Scots had been “called to be better, more compassionate and more understanding human beings” in the wake of the tragedy.
During his sermon, he said: “I hope we can turn this memory into a legacy, a legacy which would honour the victims of the Clutha Vaults tragedy, so that we can say once and for all that the deaths contributed to Glasgow and Scotland becoming a better place for everyone.”