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Indelible Spirit
I don’t know what avionics this aircraft was equipped with, but even ForeFlight for $200 per year would provide moving terrain maps, which probably would have helped more than distractions of numerous radio frequencies, while getting caught “special VFR” in the soup, near terrain. Tragic.
“The helicopter did not have a terrain awareness and warning system -- a safety feature which provides the pilot with information about the terrain,” Homendy [of the NTSB] said. (CNN article 1/29/2020)