American Bell 205 or UH1H with an American pilot on board, this is the second American 205 in less than 6 months, both fatal accidents, the first one got its own cargo wire in the main rotor and went into the ground inverted,
This other one that just crashed was working in one of the worst places in Mexico to work in, the mountains in the state of Veracruz, mostly deep canyons, dense jungle, (the favorite place for Hollywood to film movies that supposedly take place in some remote Asian jungle), fast changing cloud cover due to all the humidity coming from the gulf, terrain goes from sea level to +10K in a few miles, full of non marked powerlines everywhere, I have a friend who flies every year from Houston to Mexico City to so some race car signal relays, and he doesn't want to fly down here anymore just because he has to go thru there. Apparently he hit a big powerline that was almost 800 FT AGL.
Due to NAFTA American companies have been coming here recently to work, mostly companies that don't meet the not so stringent USFS standards, and they are able to slide thru to private companies that build infrastructure around here, so there is the result.
This has a lot of Mexican operators upset because for example for the big offshore contract companies are obliged to replace aircraft that have more than 10,000 hours, that is why ASESA just bought a dozen new 412's, but then the govt. allows foreign companies to come and fly 20 year old helicopters.
My condolences to those involved.