This was an extremely high hour machine, 13,000 on the airframe and 26,000 on the engine. Not sure if that's significant, but it's definitely interesting.
thevoyagekayaking
joined 2 years ago
Oh man, Lemmygrad will not like this one bit.
Helicopters can autorotate, meaning fly without power, and the Jetranger from my understanding has quite good autorotation characteristics.
If this was simply a power failure, they should have been able to land just fine.