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Old 14th Mar 2019, 07:11
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Are you saying these two Birds made poor decisions because of "pressure" being applied by someone to deliver the goods or else?

Or are you saying they themselves "pressured" themselves into making very poor decisions....in this case it had to be a series of bad decisions to fetch them up into a situation that resulted in the destruction of a Helicopter and damn near killed them as well.
Sasless - the exact apportioning of the 'pressures' applied is arguable, the fact that they ended up crashing isn't.
What links the two is poor decision making.

When faced with rising ground and deteriorating weather coupled with minimal fuel reserves, I would like to think that any pilot with wings or a licence would turn round, divert or land - sadly the number of CFIT accidents doesn't support that thought.
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