Originally Posted by
Matt48
So it's clearly someone elses fault he just had to take a selfie,, broke ranks and ran into the rotor,.
As others have said, some testimony indicates he returned to the aircraft to *retrieve* his phone and was killed when returning from having retrieved it. That strikes me as highly plausible.
While it may be that entitlement, youth, etc. etc. contributed to his foolish and fatal actions, who here can say they've never done something foolish in the panic and/or relief of mislaying and/or retrieving a phone or laptop ("my life's in there!")?
My feeling is that a lot of the criticism directed at the victim is essentially a defence mechanism ("that surely won't happen to me because I'm not as stupid as he is"). The trouble with defence mechanisms is that they're often not very effective.