"Hmm.. I think if it happened at hover we would see debris of it nearby and a pretty damaged tail fin."
Well, that photo is not of high enough resolution to zoom in and determine any damage (of which there may be little), the T/R could be in the next time zone, and if any debris was around, it certainly would have been collected and removed from the scene, or it's sitting in the back seat.
With nobody lulling about in the pic, this didn't "just" happen.