Originally Posted by
rickair7777
While the terrain does resemble SOCAL, that crash video does not match eyewitness reports or the weather conditions known to exist at the time of the crash.
Also different paint job.
He hovered above the Albertsons parking lot for a full 1 minute. Perhaps at 400 ft. He could have landed. Instead he pulled up SE increasing speed and altitude. He then clipped the ridge and banked left and down while sputtering and crashed to the left side of the crest.