Tears as Owner of Leicester City Football Club Dies in Plane Crash, He was a Billionaire

The owner of Leicester City Football Club, an English Premier League soccer team, died after being involved in a helicopter crash just outside of the stadium.

The crash occurred at around 8:30 p.m. local time (3:30 p.m. EST) on Saturday.

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, along with two of his staff members, the pilot and another female passenger, died when the helicopter crashed outside the stadium, the team confirmed.

According to the BBC, witnesses said the helicopter had just cleared King Power Stadium, the team’s hometown stadium, before spiraling and crashing.

n a statement released on Sunday, the team said their thoughts were with “the Srivaddhanaprabha family and the families of all those on-board at this time of unspeakable loss.”

They also remembered Srivaddhanaprabha as “a man of kindness, of generosity and a man whose life was defined by the love he devoted to his family and those he so successfully led.”