That day, he was flying a plane. He also flies a helicopter. I’ll have to go looking to find a link. I was hoping that the video I posted explained the scenario, but I didn’t watch it again.
Neither does that lengthy article to which I posted the link and an except, tell us what it was he as flying that day. We have now apparently established he was flying an aircraft, not a chopper. The confusion arose as the result of him being described as a helicopter pilot every time he was mentioned.