"boB" wrote in message
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wrote:
IMHO you can clearly see significant main rotor coning
on it's accelerated descent.
A clear indication for loss of rpm.

Looking at the vessel being tossed around by the waves just before
the final crash,
it is scary to see, how close the main rotor blades are getting to the
water surface.
So I could understand the pilots decision under pressure, to give it a
try to get away,
if he should not have seen any indication of a technical fault, after
rpm has recovered.
But this is PURE SPECULATION from my side.


Just speculation on my part as well. Having never experienced settling
with power or even seen it, this looks like what settling with power might
look like when the pilot did not have sufficient power to pull out of it.

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boB
Wing 70


I know nothing about operating an aircraft off of water like that but I
thought it strange how far he put the nose down in his attempt to lift off.
I'd imagine that he was trying to achieve ETL but really?? He buried the
nose, all the way over the windshield, "under" the surf. Once that
happened, it's no surprise that he didn't have enough power to pull out, or
cyclic authority to level the ship.

The pilot definitely made screwed the pooch on that one. The real tragedy
is that someone had to die because of it.

Fly Safe,
Steve R.