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The jury found pilot Mr Barnes should have aborted the Battersea landing. 

But it said there could be no certainty about whether Mr Barnes became distracted immediately before he crashed.

"Timing suggests he may have been changing the frequency on his radio," the jury concluded. 

"However Mr Barnes was a highly experienced pilot unlikely to become distracted by communication, ahead of aviation and navigation."

More on the jury's findings in the inquest into the 2013 Vauxhall helicopter crash in which the pilot, 50-year-old Peter Barnes and pedestrian Matthew Wood, 39, died.

The jury noted that the pilot's decision to take off from Redhill was technically "safe" as the weather there had cleared, but inappropriate. 

Jurors concluded: "He could not have reasonably expected to have completed his planned flight while maintaining adequate visibility.

"Therefore, he should not have attempted the flight." 

The jury found Mr Barnes's decision to divert to Battersea, after receiving a text message from a client, was also unsafe and inappropriate. 

Jurors concluded: "Mr Barnes was likely to have felt under pressure to land at Battersea." 

They added: "The 7.55 am text message he received from a client prompted his decision to divert, and was likely to have been read as the landing preference of a significant client, regardless of intention. 

"The general commercial pressure within a small company to keep such a client happy may have been exacerbated by that client's disagreement with another pilot there a fortnight earlier and an investigation into a third pilot." 

Danny Shaw
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent

Fatal police-related shootings in England and Wales are rare. 

In the past five years there have been eight. 

2015: 

• 11 December: Man shot in Wood Green
•  August: James Fox in Enfield
• October: Richard Davies at St Neots in Cambridgeshire

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2014: Dean Joseph shot dead by police in Islington, north London. 

None in 2013. 

2012: Anthony Grainger was shot dead by police near Warrington, Cheshire. 

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2011: 

• Michael Fitzpatrick was shot dead by police in Brighton, east Sussex
• Mark Duggan was shot dead by police in Tottenham, north London

2010: Alistair Bell was shot dead by police near Huddersfield, west Yorkshire.

A man accused of killing his unborn baby has told a jury he had "moved on" and made a second woman pregnant when his ex-girlfriend was attacked in Peckham, south-east London.

Malorie Bantala, 22, was eight months pregnant when, it is claimed, Kevin Wilson, 22, of Bermondsey, and a 17-year-old youth ambushed her in June. 

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Teaching assistant Mr Wilson told the Old Bailey jury the day she was attacked he was "knackered" and "I must have had a nap". 

Both defendants deny child destruction and causing grievous bodily harm.

Four men have been arrested by Met Police as part of a "pre-planned intelligence led operation" in Wood Green, during which a man was fatally shot this morning.

The force said: "Two of the men were arrested in the area of Bracknell Close, N22. They were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to facilitate the escape of an individual from lawful custody. 

"There were two further related arrests. 

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"The circumstances of that shooting are now under investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and as such it would be inappropriate to comment any further at this stage". 

The jury today delivered its conclusions about both deaths before coroner, Dr Andrew Harris. 

It found both deaths were accidental, however Mr Barnes's decision to fly despite the freezing fog and scattered cloud that morning was "neither safe nor appropriate".

Mr Barnes, a pilot of 24 years, had been working for the helicopter company MotorRotor, which is no longer in business. He had been flying from Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey to Elstree in Hertfordshire but was diverted to Battersea heliport.

The jury accepted evidence from Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) inspector Geraint Herbert, who believed Mr Barnes suffered a "loss of situational awareness" due to poor visibility, causing his accident. 

A pilot who was killed in a central London helicopter crash was under commercial pressure to satisfy an important client when he made the inappropriate and unsafe decision to fly in "excessively challenging weather conditions", a jury has found. 

Peter Barnes, 50, died when the helicopter he was piloting clipped a crane at The Tower, St George Wharf, Vauxhall, in January 2013.

Pedestrian Matthew Wood, 39, from Sutton, Surrey, was also killed as he walked to work. 

Danny Shaw
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent

The mother of Dean Mayley, who was stabbed to death in Greenford, west London, has pleaded with judges to impose jail terms on anyone caught with a knife.

Donna Mayley told the BBC that existing sentences did not act as a deterrent.

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The 24-year-old, who suffered from learning difficulties, was murdered during a mugging in  Ruislip Road in Greenford, on 7 February 2014. 

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Two fatal shootings have taken place in Wood Green area of north London in the past six months.

In a July a man in his 40s died in a shooting in nearby Lordship Lane, where police said he was not the intended target.

That murder investigation is ongoing with five males bailed to return to police in mid-January.  

This morning a man was shot dead in Bracknell Close with its junction with Olympus Grove this morning during an "intelligence led" operation by Met Police.

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BBC Radio London

The road at the junction of Bracknell Close and Olympus Grove, near Winkfield Road, in Wood Green has been cordoned off following the fatal shooting on the residential street this morning.

Forensic and police officers are at the scene.

BBC London 94.9 reporter Jonathan Savage is there and you can follow him on Twitter @JSavageTweets, external

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating the fatal shooting in Wood Green, north London and investigators are heading to the scene. 

"At the post incident procedure our investigators will oversee the initial accounts given by officers involved", the police watchdog has said.  

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Met Police carried out the "intelligence led operation" in Bracknell Close in Wood Green this morning, during which the man received "gunshot wounds".

No-one else was injured, police said. 

The man who was shot in a police operation in Wood Green at about 09:00 this morning has died, the Met has said.

CCTV images of a man accused of taking photos up the skirt of a woman in a Boots store in south-west London have been released by Metropolitan Police, external. 

The man, aged in his 20s, was caught on security camera at the Tandem Centre at Colliers Wood on 5 November around lunchtime. 

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A security guard confronted him and asked him to delete the images. Police want information on the man in the images.

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