Originally Posted by
malabo
Still gotta be a story here. Pilots weren’t a couple of Brazilian kids with R22s, nor Nigerian pilots in 139’s finding the ground by Braille. From the drone footage you can see clear landing areas within 100yrds. Looking at the location on google earth it is a patchwork of fields, with the occasional stand of trees, not some endless west coast forest or Amazon jungle.
I have no factual information on this accident.
I'm going to take a guess and say that the visibility got so poor that they took the best spot that they could see. Good on them, there's more UH-60's out there to replace that one.