Shy - just to clarify, that accident happened pre-NVG and the captain had elected to depart lights-out - not an unusual scenario given the tactical situation but he had gone in lights-on. The attempt to put some blame on the crewman, who was fatally injured, was the tacky part.
Yes, that's why it came to mind. Without sufficient visual references to properly establish the hover, in a confined area, it was essentially an IF departure. And as both of us know, it went very badly wrong. I recall the pilot was deemed to have "put the wings level", and as this was not the correct hover attitude, it naturally drifted sideways. The "blame" inferred was that the crewman saw the drift towards the obstruction but got his left and right mixed up and called a correction the wrong way.