Damn, I wonder how the pilot got caught up on that? Here in California, a firefighting helicopter dipping like that happens a hundred times a day in the summer and there has never been such a crash.
Edit: it looks like the error happened just before/right when the video starts. The pilot dropped waaaay too fast and didn’t give enough time for the ground effect to reduce before going in for a dip. There was no saving that crash like 10 seconds before it happened.
Damn, I wonder how the pilot got caught up on that? Here in California, a firefighting helicopter dipping like that happens a hundred times a day in the summer and there has never been such a crash.
Edit: it looks like the error happened just before/right when the video starts. The pilot dropped waaaay too fast and didn’t give enough time for the ground effect to reduce before going in for a dip. There was no saving that crash like 10 seconds before it happened.
Not an expert, but I suspect they descended into their own vortex, and went into a vortex ring state, and subsequently lost lift.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_ring_state