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As someone else suggested earlier, but now I can't find it, it looks to me like they possibly climbed vertically and backwards then attempted rotation - with a reasonable tailwind.
Had something let go at that power setting in essentially an OGE hover, the immediate 'snap rotations' would be more evident I would have thought. The rotations came on relatively slowly I thought - consistent with running out of T/R authority. Started spinning with no T/R authority - dumped the collective and never recovered.
Did we get an answer how a potentially heavy AW169 behaves in a high power OGE downwind hover?
The aircraft had a headwind. It was pointing north, in a northerly wind.
There was a brisk low-level flow on Saturday evening; I’m sure part of the reason for the highish climb was to clear all the shear before transitioning.