Originally Posted by
TowerDog
No sh!t.
If the pilots had any kind of warning it would have taken them 30-40 seconds to do an emergency descent and put down on any kind of surface, rock or sea. If the rotor departed 5 or 10 feet before landing they would all have had a good chance of surviving the madness.
Timing is everything.
I understand from reports, that the CVFDR had only about 2 seconds of recording of the incident and the aircraft crashed. I don't believe any mayday calls were made. This I feel is what makes this accident so scary. There was nothing the aircrew could have done to survive.