It is on the ground, not running and no one can be seen across the valley. No security.
Snackbarians set up in the wide open 1000+- from copter and it takes some time but you can tell they have been trained. They know what they're doing with the TOW.
One report said it was a Syrian copter and a Russian CPL was killed.
All very weird.
I saw that video yesterday and thought it was odd too. It didn’t look like it was filmed in the moment. It looked like a production. They clearly had their shots planned. The guy fires the TOW and the camera stays on him rather than swinging over to look at the impact. But then they cut to a shot of the impact. My guess is that it’s actually two events spliced together. The first is some guys setting up a TOW missile, somewhat leisurely because they’re not in a battle situation. They’re mainly just demonstrating their training. Then there’s the shot of the helicopter getting hit which happened at some other time, although it seems doubtful it’s the rescue helicopter from the shoot down.