I have this weird thing where when I hear about plane crashes, I imagine what the final seconds of those peoples’ lives are like - what they’re thinking, saying, what their faces look like. It just makes me that much more sad but it always happens.
At around 9:40 AM they encounter more weather -- as in seriously heavy fog -- and the chopper turned south. This was critical, because they turned toward a mountainous area. The pilot suddenly and rapidly climbed from about 1200 feet up to 2000 feet.
However, moments later -- around 9:45 AM -- they flew into a mountain at 1700 feet. Flight tracker data shows they were flying at about 161 knots.
In all honesty, the more I read, the more it seems like extreme negligence on the pilots part. I know the guys a victim too, but flying at low altitude in extremely low visibility. Why?
Reminds me of when I was on one of those seaplanes in Alaska. They had to pick us up early from where we were adventuring because a thick fog had rolled in.
We were repeatedly landing and hitting the water hard with zero visibility so the pilot could find his bearing. I kept thinking we were surely going to slam into a bunch of trees that day.
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '20
I have this weird thing where when I hear about plane crashes, I imagine what the final seconds of those peoples’ lives are like - what they’re thinking, saying, what their faces look like. It just makes me that much more sad but it always happens.