Originally Posted by
hargreaves99
An unexpected autorotation at night, low level, with no lights, when you only have ever practised them in the sim, once a year..
Those are not great odds.
This.
Plus being over hostile (urban) terrain.
And in a twin autorotation due to engine out is not a standard maneuver that will be in the pilot's mind at every second.
This while possibly being busy analysing the strange indications and seemingly wrong error messages.
Human brain isn't terribly good at parallel processing or rational re- prioritising while being under heavy strain.
In the given circumstances it is not too difficult to imagine how things could have unfolded in the way they did.
Yes it would be comforting to think that such a situation should be easy to deal with. But in real life at night over a city with lots of distractions, unprepared and surprising with seemingly illogical/contradictory information flowing in at a high rate that needs a lot of brain space to decipher it surely is not.