Original Message

Catastrophic component failure

Pilot heart attack 

Suicide by helicopter 

IIMC Uncontrolled Flight Into Terrain (UFIT) was wx a factor

A fellow PHI pilot had the back end of his 407 get cut off by its own tail rotor. Although the resulting nose-down was extreme, he was able to get it level before landing on the water.  In a 206 that would probably be a fatal.

The RLC pilot was fairly young, so while a physiological event can't be ruled out, it's not highly probable.

Nobody knows.  Let's hope it wasn't a catastrophic failure of some kind. Bird-strike seems like it would be high on the list of "maybe's."  We'll see.