HELIHUB - I can see where you're coming from and understand the conclusions that you've drawn from looking at 2 photos on Flickr but doing an evidence gathering exercise, accident analysis and conclusion on the order of events from those 2 photos is somewhat pre-emptive, surely ? 2 photos remember. I read the AAIB report and there's no inference that anyone was fibbing.
The most important thing is that instructor and student walked away and I would hope lessons are learned by all as Adobewombat stated.
Everyone makes mistakes and I'd like to think that we (as helicopter pilots) are a bit better than the rest and as such stick together, support each other, learn from each other and also keep each other in line.
