Flugunz:
Funny how one interprets the incoming information, eh:
I saw it as an engine failure followed by the flying pilot urging the machine to get established into its auto sequence (i.e. praying for the revs to recover/attitude, etc).
The yawing (or see sawing horizontal motion) leads me to suspect that this a/c is non SAS, and the pilot is a little tense on the pedals.
Finding that landing site at night in a built up area AND getting it safely down AFTER a wire strike, to me: is an exceptional feat worth every ounce of praise that guy gets.
The "flare, flare" call could in my humble opinion, be the handling pilot talking his way thru the manouevre, under stress...willing it to adopt the correct attitude, ROD reduction and Nr rise.
Two people watching the same video and two different stories...interesting.
Either way Flygunz, you speak as if he could have and should have done better.....how would you have reacted?????
I must however, insist that IF this had gone pear shaped and they had crashed into a busy road, or built up area, then the story would have been told differently -
this has got to be an advert for NOT flying singles over built up areas, surely?????