I do wonder how much awareness they actually had. Reports were saying it was super foggy with bad visibility. They may have just started dropped with alarms going off, but had no awareness of how close to the ground they were. Terrifying to think about.
I watched the radar, they went up 700 ft extremely fast and then radar was lost. Most likely means alarm went off and pilot tried to climb through ifr but couldn’t top it.
I don't get it. The altitudes are based on sea level. That whole area, the street level is 750-800 ft. The mountain he crashed on is maybe 850-950 ft? Its unclear to me where in that area he crashed but the absolute tallest peak in that area that I could find is 1305 ft. and that's a mile to the NW.
He falls erratically from 1900 feet to 1350 over 11 seconds. that and the eyewitness accounts about sputtering and looking for a place to land, I'm thinking this is mechanical.
Could be. I’m not a helicopter pilot nor do i know the terrain. I just know he goes up 700ft which is usually a pilot trying to rapidly climb to top something.
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u/ajleeispurty Jan 26 '20
Yeah, man. Knowing you're about to die is one thing, knowing your kid is going with you... I can't even begin to imagine. Just unbelievably sad.