Originally Posted by
markkal
You'd be surprised....Firefighting and scoops are handled by captains
I’m not blaming either pilot as such. That’s for the accident investigators. I offered up a scenario of a simple mistake. Others in the thread have offered up plausible considerations reference rotor turbulence.
It will be interesting to see if the accident investigators fly the track of the crash aircraft (in a helicopter) to get a pilots eye view of the lead in to the prang.