I 've been told the ERA EC135 made an emergency landing during an onshore postioning flight from Houma, LA, with luckily only minor injuries The expression used was 'lost power to the main rotor'. There were apparently some human factors issues.
bayou06
i) Did the crew give you any idea of the sink rate or the altitude they stabalized at? If the FDR data has been examined as suggested I'm suprised such information is not being qouted, rather than flowery statements like 'they never stopped flying the aircraft'.
ii) Are your friends both flying again?
iii) Did they say if the rumour that they did not have ready access to weather data at their home base true?
I completely agree that stating conclusions based on speculative information (or what you hoped happened) is not right, though sadly not uncommon, including within some of the less cultured companies.