I hope that this accident, whatever the cause, generates good healthy debate on how all companies operate their autopilot procedures in the NS so they are as safe and as consistent as possible. The best practice of one operator being adopted by the rest.
I was a shuttle pilot on ETAP for several years and was amazed how a second generation SP could end up in the water. ETAP is one of the bigger rigs in the NS with a modern, large, well lit helideck with little turbulence. I can't remember the outcome of the AIB report, if it has been published, but I guess the modern autopilot didn't save the day - if used - or the manual flying skills had been degraded.
Having made 100s of manual night landings on there it was never a problem, difficult sometimes in zero wind at night viz/cb limits.
Let us hope they find the tail soon so we can get to the bottom of what happened.
HF