"I want to make it clear again that this was in no way the fault of the pilot. She was not responsible in any way for this. She could not have foreseen it. It's not the responsibility of the operator, they had no culpability in this. This is human factors issue, and like I said before, I didn't actually rig this myself, but I was responsible for checking it. Usually in my mind it's enough that I would be willing to get into that helicopter and fly it, which I did – 15 times, at least," said Swigart.