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One can only imagine that a sane pilot would not attempt a torque turn with 6 passengers on board on a commercial flight, let alone a low hours pilot with no training or experience in such manoeuvres in any helicopter, let alone a Bell 206 with a teetering rotor and liable to mast bumping in a pushover/low G situations. Possible incapacitation due to his heart condition or a mechanical failure of some sort resulting in loss of control, mast bumping and subsequent crash? What do the cognoscenti here think?

Reading that report it's impossible to be sure what happened. It seems that the pax were friends of his wife so he might have been tempted to show off...but if you've never done a torque turn before, surely you wouldn't, especially with only 218 hours on helicopters and a below average report two months before the accident?

CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 28, 2020 3:42 pm

If you've never done a torque turn before, surely you wouldn't, especially with only 218 hours on helicopters and a below average report two months before the accident?

Precisely the conditions for less than safe behaviour.