CrisisLex — 2013_Glasgow_helicopter_crash

A Twitter dataset of 1,100 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2013 Glasgow helicopter crash crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2013 Glasgow helicopter crash crisis, collected systematically across 26 events for comparative analysis. Intended for research into crisis informatics, disaster response, social media analysis, cross-crisis comparison, emergency communication patterns, situation awareness.

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Analytics

9.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.9
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
helicoptercrashglasgowcluthapubpolicepeoplecrashesnewsthoughtscrashedafghanistanampkilleddeadvictimsinvolvedscotlanddiednightsoldiersriponedirslaytionbbcbreakingbbcbarpassedscottishrooftodayfortrileydayaffectedbreahnazhanehospitalhopeoneshttplovedprayersvisitglasgow_taxisprovidefreeorgasmicgomezstrugglingtransporttaxis01414297070
Topic clusters

Topic 0

clutha
bar
pub
glasgow
injury
bbc
vaults
helicopter

Topic 1

thought
involve
family
glasgow
response
crash
hope
helicopter

Topic 2

clutha
way
today
story
tragedy
nelis
day
sad

Topic 3

clutha
charity
sad
glasgow
good
day
create
money

Topic 4

soldiers
pass
rip
afghanistan
crash
helicopter
family
thought

Topic 5

search
like
crash
area
witness
helicopter
police
duty

Topic 6

victim
die
people
friday
glasgow
night
helicopter
crash

Topic 7

prayer
affect
thought
god
involve
tonight
church
send

Topic 8

provide
free
visit
love
hospital
amp
clutha
taxis

Topic 9

police
pub
cause
number
crowded
casualty
dead
glasgow

Topic 10

funeral
hold
man
aftermath
die
clutha
ninth
seriously

Topic 11

kill
afghanistan
troop
official
family
today
member
american
Show all 27 topics

Topic 12

roof
pub
crashes
video
glasgow
police
helicopter
centre

Topic 13

confirm
dead
number
person
police
expect
chief
fatality

Topic 14

navy
fun
way
helicopter
present
aerial
amazing
landing

Topic 15

stranraer
work
clyde
till
captain
player
capt
hero

Topic 16

pub
friday
care
building
glasgow
hit
late
crash

Topic 17

troop
american
shut
today
bad
kill
afghanistan
day

Topic 18

pray
clutha
floral
respond
wreck
scene
benefit
house

Topic 19

toll
death
rise
services
air
flight
body
find

Topic 20

scottish
copter
worker
remove
scotland
wreckage
update
number

Topic 21

fear
dead
hotel
reuters
tour
china
buy
kill

Topic 22

trap
multiple
people
roof
numerous
update
casualty
report

Topic 23

katie
hopkins
tweet
disgusting
terrible
scottish
big
evidence

Topic 24

wtf
wow
real
imagine
national
sound
chain
form

Topic 25

dead
people
chief
pub
rise
toll
death
rush

Topic 26

open
blood
centre
important
clutha
big
donation
glasgow
Top hashtags
#clutha284
#helicopter80
#glasgow72
#news12
#crash8
#pshelicopter8
#helicoptercrash7
#hero7
#glasgowhelicopter5
#scotland5
#wreckingbail5
#breaking4
#cl4
#charity3
#cluthavaults3
#csr3
#lestweforget3
#prayforglasgow3
#pub3
#rangers3
Top emoji
😔47
🇸45
🇺45
🙏13
😞3
👏2
💕2
💙2
😐2
🎄1
👍1
💔1
💗1
😄1
😇1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_Glasgow_helicopter_crash
Authors
Olteanu, Alexandra; Vieweg, Sarah; Castillo, Carlos
Year
2015
Source paper
What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises
DOI / arXiv
10.1145/2675133.2675242
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
1,100
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2012-2013 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://crisislex.org/ link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 351.9 KB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{olteanu2015expect,
  author    = {Olteanu, Alexandra and Vieweg, Sarah and Castillo, Carlos},
  title     = {What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises},
  year      = {2015},
  doi       = {10.1145/2675133.2675241},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
  series    = {CSCW '15},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address   = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Olteanu, A., Vieweg, S., & Castillo, C. (2015). CrisisLex — 2013_Glasgow_helicopter_crash [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Olteanu, Alexandra, et al. CrisisLex — 2013_Glasgow_helicopter_crash. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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