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High RPM,
Drogue chutes work well usually...helps if they have a swivel between the chute and aircraft otherwise the chute can spin and eventually collapse.
Within the first 100 feet of heigh gain and about just above ETL....it was apparent that was a grossly mis-rigged load that was not going to ride well at all.
The normal way of lifting a single rotor helicopter, is with one sling attached to the MR-hub (quite obvious why for most)
This however looks as it is being strapped with multiple straps, and I only guess they were attached to the crosstubes, as I can’t think og other points to attach lifting straps. Then the balance of the load is above the liftingpoint and it will be completely unstable.
At the 9sec mark, you can see what looks like a strap failing.