It's funny to listen to some of you inexperienced and uneducated mother hens out there, squawking, "RAWWK, RAWWK, LTE, LTE!" every time a Bell goes down.
LTE had nothing to do with this accident.
Nothing. Repeat after me. Nothing. So get off it.
The problem was much more basic than that.
As the "pilot" pulls his overloaded, overgrossed (no matter what he says) TwinRanger up to an OGE hover, you can hear the poor engines topping out with the resultant decay of RPM, both engine and rotor. As he tries to get over the stands, things are going very badly. His MR and TR RPM are now so low that directional control is lost and the ship yaws to the right...
just as any other helicopter on the face of the planet would do (given a rotor with the same direction of rotation, of course). Down he goes! Ironically, he crashes into an area presumably large for such an operation at that weight, had he chosen it instead of the confined area.
I don't see conspiracies everywhere, I don't see little green aliens, and I don't see LTE as a contributing cause of *every* Bell accident. Some of you really take the cake!
LTE, indeed.
