DBS Helicopter Crash, as paged

[jimmnn]

3 dead in helicopter crash south of Silt, Colorado | PostIndependent.com

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[dw2872]

Easy to see how it could happen. It must be hard to see those wires. Check out the street view from where they say the crash happened:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dnh09og1y8ynnuy/Silt crash.jpg

 

[MtnBiker2005]

Update

Some findings about this crash on the GJ Sentinel website this week.

Inadequate preflight planning by the pilot
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/inadequate-planning-cited-in-downed-copter/

Type in N207DS in the Registration box and it will find the Probable Cause
(09/08/2015) PDF file.
http://ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/index.aspx

HISTORY OF FLIGHT - NTSB Identification: CEN14FA122
http://ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20140127X44720&ntsbno=CEN14FA122&akey=1