She flew the aircraft while he made the calls to ATC and took care of other duties.
You may be thinking of the Washington DC helicopter pilot pair. The Army (woman) pilot was low hours, was getting a check ride to maintain flight certs. Or regain flight certs. Male CWO was handling all radio calls that night.
Here? We are not being told. 40 feet above the runway going down that fast? The other pilot can’t pull it up fast enough.
140 feet up? The other pilot could have minimized the impact, if not avoided it entirely.
/the tennis ball was too close to the garage wall