Originally Posted by
SASless
As to your SH-2 Crew....being on the ground at their maintenance base....shutting down and calling for a Tech or even a Tug would have prevented that Fatality.
SAS, that's the problem with symptoms looking like one thing and being something else. Having a landing area being separated by a body of water from the hangar area. To be sure, our wing commander raised the same question you did: why not shut down and get a tow back? The answer was,
"we trouble shot the malfunction we thought we had"
From boost off up, add boost/lateral coupler/ASE/AFCS -- each sub system had its little quirks that occasionally made one have to set her down and reset the system. The whole community (both coasts) were quite surprised at that particular failure.
As to the BIM, yeah, familiar.