The pilot of a helicopter which crashed in London last week had been diverted because of bad weather, an inquest has heard.
Pete Barnes, 50, died from multiple injuries when his rotor-driven aircraft clipped a high-rise crane and plummeted to the ground close to Vauxhall station, south London.
He narrowly missed a new apartment block called The Tower, in St George's Wharf, to which the crane was attached and crash landed in Wandsworth Road.
An inquest into his death at Southwark Coroner's Court has been told he had been flying from Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey to Elstree in Hertfordshire when he was diverted.
Controllers on the ground agreed he should change his destination to Battersea Heliport because of bad weather at the time.
He was flying a twin-engine Agusta Westland 109 helicopter, London Inner South Coroner Dr Andrew Harris heard.
Police, the fire brigade and the HEMS air ambulance all attended the scene and Mr Barnes was pronounced dead by the HEMS doctor.
Pedestrian Matthew Wood also died Dr Harris said he would review the case in three months and did not set a date for a future hearing.
The veteran pilot, who had 25 years' experience, had flown as an air ambulance pilot and in several films during his career including Oscar-winning Saving Private Ryan and Tomb Raider II.
Mr Barnes, from Berkshire, has been described as "a good guy" who was "full of life and great fun".
He was born in Nottingham on December 9, 1962 and was single, the inquest heard.
Pedestrian Matthew Wood, 39, from Sutton, Surrey, was also killed in the tragedy as he walked to work. He died from severe burns and a leg injury, a post-mortem examination revealed last week.
Neighbour Yvonne Humphries said Mr Wood was a "lovely, cuddly teddy bear", and his sister, Amanda Wood, said he was a "big guy with a big heart" who doted on his godson, his brother Darren's child.
The coroner did not set a date for the re-opening of the inquest into Mr Wood's death.
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