Sheriff's helicopter down, New Mexico, four dead, 7/16

Very sad. N911SZ was a familiar sight (and sound) over Albuquerque's North Valley every Spring when BCSO would practice bucket ops in the Rio Grande and North Diversion Channel.
 
flightwriter said:
Very sad. N911SZ was a familiar sight (and sound) over Albuquerque's North Valley every Spring when BCSO would practice bucket ops in the Rio Grande and North Diversion Channel.
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Yeah, they were running a fire support mission.
 
Kenny Phillips said:
Yeah, they were running a fire support mission.
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I saw. Identities have been released, and BCSO reports the accident occurred at 7:20 pm Saturday evening. Not sure of the exact conditions at the time but late afternoon/early evening monsoonal thunderstorms have been common throughout the area for the past couple of weeks.
 
Prelim released yesterday: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/105488/pdf

Witnesses to the crash reported "the helicopter flew past their location westbound, then rapidly descended without making any turns. A large plume of dust occurred when the helicopter impacted the ground." Investigators found one main rotor blade largely undamaged and the second fractured at the spar, "with the trailing edge separated and located nearby."
 
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