This may very well be a true story, but I can’t get the niggling feeling out of my head that we’re just being used as scape goats for anything that goes wrong in the skies these days
the student was practicing a maneuver when, “a white ‘DJI Phantom quad-copter drone’ was headed into their air space.”
I agree, there’s something fishy here (and quoting Blackadder - “it’s not the smell of Baldrick’s Apple crumble”).
The instructor had to take over and the tail rotor hit a tree? Hmmmm! Why was the student flying so low and close to trees? Who flew into whose airspace? The instructor managed to identify a DJI Phantom prior to the incident?
Seems like an evasion of truth and personal responsibility by both occupants of the helicopter. Not happy at that