I know the pilot of this very well,
so the story is he and his family were flying to Sherburn for breakfast, they were flying at 1,000ft on the altimeter,
after Doncaster they turned right following SkyDemon track
SkyDemon reported that he was just under 1000ft so he eased back on cyclic to gain height 100ft per minute climb rate, about 5-10 seconds after this the helicopter made a huge explosion style bang which they all heard and started shaking, the pilot immediately did a 180 auto! Both the pilot and his father identified the field and battling the helicopter he successfully autod and ran on, unfortunately the field was extremely muddy as sheep were in it and as it was coming to a stop the right hand skid dug in and it went onto its side, either the iPad or the airframe has hit the passenger and unfortunately he died! The pilot, pilots son and mother were fairly lucky and had cuts!
however my friend isn’t dealing with this very well at all! He did everything he could and he was low hours too, he had only just got rated on that r44 in the summer and passed his test last January so it’s a miracle they’ve survived at all! Mentally he’s not in a good place and from speaking to him he’s having to have a lot of councilling