Remember that they've already been practising this for months - it's not a first time thing - by now they likely know and understand the risks well (Also NZ is

Remember that they've already been practising this for months - it's not a first time thing - by now they likely know and understand the risks well (Also NZ is full of helicopter pilots who work doing "deer recovery", snatching animals with shotgun-nets, hanging them under helos and pulling them off of near vertical mountain ridges - grabbing something under a chute is likely easy in comparison)