Polyneux

In all actuality its both of the pilots faults.

Any pilot learns from day one to keep your head and eyes on the move and they should have stayed well away from each other, and should have always known where the pilot was.

Its your own ass if a helicopter flies right towards you and you arent paying attention enough to see it.

There is a speed, height, and angle in helicopter flying known as the "Deadmans curve". Once you pass this threshold it is difficult to maneuver (which may have attributed to this crash), not only that should your engine fail there is not enough space to the ground for you to safely crash-land.

It occurs to me that any one with good sense will not go past the well known and practiced rituals of a pilot in order to help anyone. Self preservation is paramount in the human genome.


As far as fault goes you can even go as far as blaming the news service...pressuring the pilots to get the best and clearest angle for camera shots, which would lead to habitual bad piloting.

However I am somewhat confused as to why they were there in the first place? Where were the Police Helo pilots, who are trained to "help" in that type of situation, and are usually kept whithin minutes notice.