Hmm, there are a couple of things wrong with that. Why he mentioned the height velocity curve I don't know, as a successful landing from there is not likely, tail rotor or not!
The other thing is if you are fortunate enough to have a tail rotor failure at altitude it is possible to stabilise the aircraft if you are quick enough, but any attempted landing should be a run on to prevent a counter rotation by pulling pitch near the ground.
RIP to the poor bugger that was well aware of what has happening.
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