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You can descend safely with engine failure; it’s called autorotation. Sounds like they probably did so, but the floats were not properly inflated. Also a harn
by madengr 9y ago
You can descend safely with engine failure; it’s called autorotation. Sounds like they probably did so, but the floats were not properly inflated. Also a harness catching a fuel shutoff switch; bad. So many small things that can go wrong, compounding to fatalities.
- elliottcarlson 9y agoYou can even see, in captured footage, that it descends fine, and then starts to turn to its side due to the floats not being properly inflated. https://twitter.com/JJmagers/status/972974463175286784 https://twitter.com/JJmagers/status/972974463175286784 for the video.