Someone was in a lot of trouble for that.
Yeah, at 0:20 he was definitely thinking "fuck my life".
Also, watch close at 0:25 and you can see that one guy was probably INCHES away from getting smacked by the tail and tail-rotor assembly.
Fake Edit: Now that I've read the video description, it's good to know that the pilot is facing criminal charges.
No mechanical failures until he hit the ground. He tried to pull off a return-to-target maneuver in thin mountain air (note the snow) and miscalculated the amount of collective he'd need to apply to keep from hitting the ground. It would have worked had he been operating in the denser air of a lower altitude. Helicopters not specifically built for flight in a thin atmosphere SUCK at high altitudes.
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