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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been looking at the pictures, and the video of the flight path.
Can someone way in that has experience either with the geography of this part of California, or traveling by helicopter – which is obviously different than traveling by airplane.
[b]Why would the helicopter turn to the south,[/b] when I believe they were going somewhere north west of where the plane crash occurred.
Also curious: it seems they were instructed to fly along a highway, but then ended up crashing in the hillside. It seems very fortunate the helicopter didn’t land in the middle of the highway, or in a neighborhood. [/quote]

I don't think anyone knows why.  Maybe just confusion. The pilot likely had zero visibility. I live in the area and it was EXTREMELY thick fog. I was driving on the freeway in the very early hours that morning and it was quite scary. [/quote]

That is what the pilot forums are surmising. He became disoriented as to where he was. He then dropped below the cloud cover and realized he was close to terrain, tried to pull a couple moves to get away from the terrain but helicopters are not at all forgiving like aircraft and if you get at the wrong angle, there is no recovery. It looks like about 20 seconds from trying moves to crash time. [/quote]

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