Quote Originally Posted by nikvoodoo View Post
But the ground work for the helicopter crashing was also already laid by Datu being the one responsible for the fixes to the chopper. We've seen Datu be unable to fix the generator and Burt had to do that for him. We've seen Datu fail at the Pumping Station (granted he didn't have much time). The ground work for the crash was laid back in Season 2.

It's a mechanical repair that didn't hold, so I'm wondering if the Cliffhanger is what you're reacting to, or rather the cliche of a repair breaking and the helicopter crashing because of it. If the helicopter hadn't been shot up, didn't need repairs but they still crashed short of Irwin I would understand.
Yeah... I guess you're right about the groundwork for the crash being pre-laid. I kinda overlooked those aspects, so I guess more a fault of the reader (me) here than the writer. I'll be gettin' off my soapbox now.