Originally Posted by
Rotor George
The video shows an aircraft at 100KT or faster, descending with 1500 ft/min or more in a straight line into slightly raising terrain. Explosion on impact. None of the newspaper articles cited give a time of day when the accident happened.
Could it be that the video was taken by a night vision camera? Not an inkling of flare before impact, And definitely much faster than a night autorotation would look like.