Originally Posted by
bryancobb
OMGGGG! And you can do that at 150kts headed straight into a funnel where rising terrain converges up to the cloud bases and you know there's Earth in the cloud ahead that you are about to climb into???? All while unexpectedly having to quickly establish a crosscheck and swap from eyes outside to instruments. SMH
We have some facts from the ADS-B data, published at
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/k...icopter-crash/
This is the final minute of flight, and before the descent begins, the aircraft is traveling at below 120 kts and above 2000 ft. A look at the topographical map confirms that there is no hilltop exceeding 2000 feet for miles in a westerly direction, and even the range it crashed into doesn't come up that high, see
https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/maps/j3qe/Malibu/ (scroll a bit north) . If the helicopter had kept up the climb rate and heading, it'd have been safe and sound with respect to terrain. The left turn and descent caused the crash (mostly the descent, obviously). And at this point, we can only guess what caused that.
