AW 139 down in Abu Dhabi
I did not personnely seen the tape, i`m not anymore in Abu Dhabi but i still
have somes very reliables contacts overthere, from what they told me, the
helicopter was clear on take off to 1500 fts for a West departure, wich is the
normal departure for helicopters heading offshore, they busted 1500 and went up to 2000 fts, they never really maintained a strait and level flight up to a point where they started a steep descent at low airspeed, someone mentionned 40 kts in a previous thread, they crashed near Futaisi Island wich is about 18 miles west of Abu Dhabi and is a waypoint on the West departure and on all helicopters GPS of the company. You`ve seen the photo, you can tell that there was almost no forward airspeed when they chashed, the rotorhead with the blades still attached to it, is sitting right next to what`s left of the fuselage.