Originally Posted By: ColeyG
I don't see anything that indicates loss of main or tail rotor authority in the early part of the clip.

He approaches in a straight line, banks a short turn over the buildings, and starts a steep climb (all indicating intact authority), which to me looks like he either stalls out on, or something happens in the cockpit to restrict the pilot ability to manipulate the controls. He tries to dive out of it and/or autorotate to the ground, but doesn't have the room to get it done. No external indications (smoke, vapor trail, etc.) of a mechanical failure, but that doesn't necessarily mean they didn't lose power. Seems unlikely though as those ships have two engines.

Just looked squirrelly at the front end. A panicked recovery attempt, maybe.

I think that the way the crowd was lined up, they were going to do a planned, high speed pass over the snow field. Camera guy was there, etc.

Maybe they came in too low, tried to fix it, and everything went south.
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