Blender - do you know if they were landing or taking off from one of the rooftop helipads in the city?
On this particular flight, NO and YES, they had just taken off a ground level helipad and going to a rooftop helipad about 30 miles away in Toluca which had an elevation of 8,700 FTAMSL and were about 7 miles away from there departure point, in straight and level flight from it when they crashed, they were about 6 miles away from Mexico City International Airport, they took off uneventfully and reported their takeoff normally, crashed about 3 minutes later without warning.
I hate it when an aircraft just goes down like that, as I said before, this is a VERY professional outfit, every effort was made to keep all their aircraft well maintained, pilots and mechanics well trained, the aircraft was fairly new. I fly a 109E in Mexico City everyday and I just hope we find out what happened, it would be very unfair not to, for all Agusta operators.