Where does the buck stop?
This thread has an interesting focus. It was the machines fault!!
I wonder how many helicopter company managers are prepared to accept the argument that a control lock up, in conditions far away from those described in the flight manual for such an event, can be assigned to ‘jack stall’ and should not be the subject of further technical investigation; let alone that such an incident is an acceptable excuse for flying ‘through’ the trees.
To then attempt a further flight, unless the ‘local Taliban’ are after you, without stopping for a visual inspection and consultations with an engineer/mechanic simply beggars belief.
I only hope that we are not all muttering “there but for the grace of……!