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Originally Posted by Buehler445
Pure Speculation on my part, but here is a possibility that might explain the descent thing.
I mentioned before that my friend loaned their plane to a dude that wrecked it. Here's the story on that. He was flying VFR to Manhattan and hit some unexpected localized heavy fog. Tower had him change his pattern, then he tried to switch to IFR (which I think he and the plane were rated for) but he was alone, trying to navigate, switching to IFR in an unfamiliar plane, and got disoriented. He got to going pretty much straight down, and when he came through the fog, he was going way too fast to have any shot at pulling up.
It's possible he got disoriented or got distracted doing something different and lost track of his shit.
Again, pure speculation, but it's what happened to the guy from my town. And I know planes aren't copters, but it's a possibility.
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We’re all just speculating of course. I think the same. I keep harping on collective position at impact as telling of what he was thinking. If it is near full up, he has a handful of collective and power trying to climb or go faster.
Contrary to the lower, slower gameplan logic. He may have been trying to avoid the ground in a rush or it combined with the stick position may point to disorientation from the inadvertent IMC in a turn.
My similar earlier comment from an Osprey mishap I once chaired remains for me:
“Loss of situational awareness led to ground impact resulting in unoccupiable living space.” Very engineer like to describe the deaths which in the mishap chain started with the basic bad judgment to fly with that SVFR gameplan in those conditions.