Quoted from Trekkie1978:Sorry, what I meant was stop the helicopter from moving in any direction and just slowly climb straight up.
The way I read it, is that the helicopter was still going straight and going up too fast, thus, he was forced to pitch it down to regain control.
Quoted from Phat_Jay:So were reports of impact at +/- 180mph true? Why would he be at those speeds given conditions.
Good questions. I was thinking these things as well. If the pilot was disoriented and perhaps in a panic, why would he be flying at such a high rate of speed? Unless that report was not accurate.