[arm958]

I'm curious about the pilots and their experience. This type of accident is too easy to avoid

In hindsight, they are all avoidable. However, I'm giving the pilots the benefit of the doubt, since they didn't have the benefit of your 20-20 hindsight. I've never flown a chopper, and certainly not at night, with the dust blowing, in some God forsaken land. Don't be too quick to judge.