I was going to be mean and rag on an “expert” the local media interviewed on this incident, but then I thought about it and he was doing basically the same thing as we are here, except his speculation wasn’t as informed as ours.
The main comment that I took issue with was this one:
“Helicopters probably don’t have a flight data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder, so what they’ll do is just basically try to… investigate the accident and try to see what, if any, failures of any components,” Williams said. “I would basically look at the main rotor first and of course the tail rotor.”
I guess flight data/CVR isn’t common in the civil rotorcraft world? The H-60 surely does have both, hopefully the IVHMU where they are contained survived.
In the same article it was stated the aircraft was enroute to Madison County Executive airport, I had assumed they had departed from Redstone Arsenal or Huntsville International, I guess because I perceived some forward motion of the aircraft when there wasn’t any.