PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - AW139 crash in Kenya
View Single Post
Old 9th Sep 2016, 09:00
  #12 (permalink)  
Non-PC Plod
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: On the green bit near the blue wobbly stuff
Posts: 674
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
Looks like VRS to me. Difficult to see from any of the angles whether there was any rate of descent, but the initial right yaw would fit with a sudden application of collective to try to arrest a descent. This could have been the trigger to enter VRS, which leads to the apparent loss of yaw, and subsequently pitch & roll control as the VRS becomes fully developed.
I agree incipient VRS is not difficult to effect a recovery from, but if you consider the likely "startle" effect, and a few seconds to recognise and react, then fully blown VRS is not easy to recover from, particularly from this height.

Last edited by Non-PC Plod; 9th Sep 2016 at 09:28.
Non-PC Plod is offline