No matter how good or lucky you think you are, always allow a margin for error - otherwise the error takes you to to the edge of (or beyond) your skill/luck envelope and such cliff-edges are often fatal.
Helicopter pilots are, by nature and necessity, managers of risk due to the environments we work in and the conditions we work under - I'm sure there's not one here who hasn't pushed their luck to get the job done and then sat and thought about it later pondering the what-ifs.
Doubtless Ara would have done the same if he had got through and delivered his pax and maybe learned a lesson from it - close calls are what make you stop and take stock. Not to be in this case sadly.