I am amazed at the lack of comment on this accident. We have an English crew generate 9 pages of respnse for a straight forward, well thought out rescue, and not even two for this example.
Lots more what if's here:
1. Did the pilot "take the weight" or did the crewman do it using the up switch? Was the sudden downdraught the pilot thought he was in just the weight of the load coming off?
2. What was the pilot's mental model of what was going on? Did the crewman to pilot link fail, or the ground to crewman?
3. Why has this not reignited the debate about cable cutters?
just wondering...........