Helicopters can autorotate, meaning fly without power, and the Jetranger from my understanding has quite good autorotation characteristics.

If this was simply a power failure, they should have been able to land just fine.

This was an extremely high hour machine, 13,000 on the airframe and 26,000 on the engine. Not sure if that’s significant, but it’s definitely interesting.

Yeah, if it’s a roll of the dice whether the platform will be accessible on any day, people will eventually go somewhere else.

In fairness to the AI, human writers are far from infallible. Anyone remember the Cambodian midget fighting league?