A few random thoughts:
Report listed that two of the passengers who died were full time employees of flynyon. While we don't know their job function yet, it's pretty telling that if they can't make it out then tourists didn't stand a chance.
the 40min NYC rescue video linked upthread seems unnecessarily complicated, and likely cost time: rescue and divers getting into position, driving into what appears to be a park, walking quite a ways, and standing there listening to teams and strategies being announced while the helicopter riders were drowning or giving in to shock/hypothermia. Looked like 50+ responders in the video. I may have overlooked this, but how many minutes after the crash before divers were in the water?
Last edited by e7pilot; 14th Mar 2018 at 16:46.