Especially with two women who were unaccompanied by men to keep them on task. Probably had to stop late for a Latte

It's possible since it's a helicopter. If the pilot was trying to land though, I would imagine he would have tried to bring the aircraft further down and break through the fog.

ROFL

Thanks for not pointing out that you have more hair than I do.

Yeah, I'd imagine that's the hindsight for him and commenting on it.

With 3 kids chipping at each other constantly, I will probably pass you in that category, too.

Right. But I wouldn’t be thinking about whether or not there was rotor wash at the time to pay attention to what I saw. Or the sound. I wouldn’t have paid that much attention.

If he was MX or maybe ATC, he MIGHT be paying attention to the sound, but you're most likely right.

Spatial disorientation?

Couldn't see where he was flying so was going slow to wait for clouds/smoke/smog/fog to pass before resuming normal flight?

Hearing this makes me fear that the occupants burned to death. I pray to God that isn’t true

From the description, it sounds like he was hunting for the ground; a visual on anything on the ground. A road, a billboard, the overhead lights along a road, anything.

He had to be several hundred feet off the ground if there was no rotor wash effecting the bottom of the cloud cover, which the witness said was around 150 feet. This chopper was big if it could carry 9 people, so I'm guessing at least 300-400 feet off the deck? But surrounded on all sides by mountains/canyon walls. screw that noise.

If they were accelerating into the side of a mountain is, I'm guessing they all died upon impact.

Wonder if he thought he was hovering whwn he was moving first.

In that ship he should've had instrumentation that would tell him when he was in a hover? Probably should've had avionics that would put him in a hover at the press of a button.

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Remember it’s better to be a witness then you can’t be on the mishap board.

I stil like the Mo. based TWA cap. This guy gives his view without drama. Cleaning up those type mishap sites is also no fun.