I really appreciate everyone's concern about my well being.
All I can say about the accident is that it looks like the typical CFIT accident, the part about it possibly being foul play is press nonsense, if you want to depart Mexico City in ANY direction you have to go up to at least 10,000 to clear the omnidirectional mountains, it get's extremely tricky sometimes, very high mountains, humidity coming from the Gulf and the Pacific makes for permanent difficult flying around here, and if you are going to try it you really have to know what you are doing and have plenty of backup plans in case things don't turn out as planned. There are no airways you can use, and ATC will not help, they will just let you do anything you want as long as you don't get in the way of IFR traffic.
Some months back there was a new 407 lost the same way 2 miles from the 412 crash.
From the time we started searching to the time we found it took more than 6 hours to find it, there were about 10 helicopters trying to find it, all in the same general area, all in the mountains in the same bad WX that had been there since the crash, miracle we didn't bump into each other, we were joking that we should fly in pairs of similar colors in case we bumped into each other the paint scrapes wouldn't show as much.
I could hear the ELT extemely near but couldn't climb the extra 150 feet to get to where the crash took place. Probably another 100 feet and he could have cleared the mountain, he crashed at 11,250 feet AMSL, made "trench" in the woods about 100 feet long cutting down 20 inch pine trees with the blades until he came to a halt against the solid mountain, he had a lot of FOB so the fire pretty much turned everything into ashes.
Last year while being in charge of pilots and operations I had to let this pilot go since we lost a contract, he went back to flying for the police, that has had me thinking a little on what if . . . .
Oh well, that's it for now, when I can download some pictures I post some aerials of the crash site.
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