Originally Posted by JD10367 (Post 14753233)

IF that's the real video of this crash (and that's a big "if"), that clearly looks like engine failure and the pilot was doing the best he could. He was autorotating straight down. If that was over flat terrain, maybe the copter crashes into the ground at a decent car-crash speed but at least you have a chance; in that canyon, no ****ing way you can do anything about it.

Originally Posted by eDave (Post 14753224)

Here it is. Don't watch. Damn.

Not embedding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN9v...XGryC5LfZ7r9HQ

Originally Posted by cabletech94 (Post 14753243)

I won’t argue the vid may be a hoax, but I will add it was a very high fog. Like you could see the road fine, but the upper atmosphere was very very thick. I asked the Uber driver we were with was it smog, and he said no. Just a bad fog.

Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 14753264)

When the NTSB does their investigation, it will be interesting to see if it was engine failure, pilot error, weather, or a combo of all of the above. Since the LAPD had grounded their helicopters, seems like nobody should have been flying helicopters this AM until the weather cleared up.

Originally Posted by Coyote (Post 14753132)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0pQfgi9ZqU

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...1708Z/tracklog

Here’s a couple post of the flight data and comms.
If it”s accurate and you know what to listen for around that airspace it paints a picture of a single pilot flying a Sikorsky S76 under SVFR helo rules when IMC conditions likely existed.

Having flown around there for years with multiple types of aircraft, and using a “special” Naval Instrument rating (0-0 takeoff and landing mins beyond FAA published mins.The joke was always that anybody with a “special” card was smart enough not to use it) and having run or reviewed for endorsement multiple mishap boards, I have my initial opinions but the mishap board will determine the most likely cause.

He’s ‘scum runnin” around the airspace in bad weather and not flying IFR. He’s in a superb executive commercial helo.

Originally Posted by JD10367 (Post 14753233)

IF that's the real video of this crash (and that's a big "if"), that clearly looks like engine failure and the pilot was doing the best he could. He was autorotating straight down. If that was over flat terrain, maybe the copter crashes into the ground at a decent car-crash speed but at least you have a chance; in that canyon, no ****ing way you can do anything about it.

Originally Posted by CaliforniaChief (Post 14753257)

That's not the same incident. Visibility, landscape, it's pretty obvious.

That ain't Calabasas and it ain't Kobe's chopper.

Originally Posted by Nickhead (Post 14753298)

that said, did anyone else read baker mayfield's condolences? even in trajedy he's still a douche! he has no compassion for anything.

Originally Posted by Nickhead (Post 14753298)

that said, did anyone else read baker mayfield's condolences? even in trajedy he's still a douche! he has no compassion for anything.

Originally Posted by srvy (Post 14753290)

In that youtube the air controller radios you are still to low just before it disappears from radar. It sure appears the helo pilot flew it into the ground.

It will be interesting who was piloting and how much experience.