”There is no choice.....one does not over fly people or structures....ever!
Most of us doing longline work of course are trying to avoid as much property/person as we can, but that’s a lot easier said than done.
In this particular scenario where he went back and forth to the same LZ he could have pick a different flight path, or extra distance away from property to compensate for centrifugal or aerodynamic force of the load.
Sometimes during Seismic/Drill every load is place at a different location and quite frequently structures are hiding in the trees. Once you come up on one of those (and I know it’s not good), there is little you can do besides flying dead smack center over the top or too close to it and hope for the best instead of making an evasive maneuver and additionally increasing the stress on the load and rigging.
In this particular incident and according to the pictures, they could have used a higher rated cable. Some of my shoelaces are more capable
Good thing nobody got hurt and as so often in this industry “a valuable lesson learnt and move on”