was thinking about this and looked up the story to see if there were any updates

article from August 2020 on the crash

so one can assume the girls had some sort of reaction to food or alcohol or drug consumption, the emergency flight was scheduled last minute, the pilots had not flow the helicopter in over a month because it had been in the shop, there was some sort of catastrophic mechanical failure

another article

WV Paper

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Delaney, Jezek and a physician went to attend to Clark. The girl was drowsy and vomiting, and the three rolled her to her side. Those at the party told Jezek she had not taken drugs. Jezek noted that Clark did not have an “overwhelming smell of alcohol” on her.

Shane Lerner, Clark’s boyfriend, reported that Clark had called him around 10:30 p.m. She had been drinking but did not seem ill, Lerner said in the report. Her health was “phenomenal.” He said that Clark, who had plans to attend medical school, had good health. She’d had only a stomach bug on the day before the trip.

Lerner said whatever had made Clark sick on July 3 must have happened suddenly.

While the three tended to Clark, Jezek said, Kameron became suddenly ill. She was drowsy and vomiting but did not have slurred speech and did not appear to have as severe symptoms as Clark, Jezek said.

“At that point, Mr. Cline became concerned and wanted to get the 2 young adults to the United States for medical treatment,” the documents report.

Jezek had vomit on her clothes, so she went back to her bungalow to change. She did not make a diagnosis or know why the girls became ill, she told authorities.

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Immediately upon take-off, warning sounds filled the cockpit, cockpit recording transcripts show.

“There was a fatal accident in the U.K., and this is exactly what happened there,” Painter, who is from Great Britain, told Jude.

Around the same time Painter had spoken, the helicopter lights started spinning and vanished, according to witnesses.

Hogan watched as the craft turned west, climbed 3 to 4 stories and nosedived, less than one minute after take-off. He notified the U.S. Coast Guard around 2 a.m. and obtained Cline’s medical information from Cline’s son.

The recording did not identify which accident Painter meant. However, the New Orleans Advocate reported that nine months prior to the Cline crash, an Agusta helicopter leaving from a professional English soccer team’s stadium started spinning shortly after takeoff and crashed, killing the club’s owner and four others on board.

Investigators in that case blamed problems in the link between the helicopter’s tail rotor and the pilot’s controls, the newspaper reported.

A witness to the Cline wreckage said that the wheels on the helicopter were still extended, indicating that Jude had not retracted the gear while in transitional lift.