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You treat these incidents with a great deal of empathy. Thank you for your sensitive handling of the subject.
Tragic indeed. The pilot and I were classmates in flight school and friends. Very hard to see someone you know have this terrible outcome
It seem like there should be an Investigation Into Who Was In Charge of the Maintenance and Upkeep On This Helicopter And Was It Being Done According To The Very Strict FCC Regulations, For “Parts Of The Helicopter”, To ‘Just Start Falling Off’, Seems To Suggest There May Have Been Some Dereliction Of Duty In That Area .
Agreed to an extent, but watching the video again and again, there is no reason for the helicopter to have split in half…as though it were targeted by a drone or foreign body…. Something is really looking suspicious. I doubt we’ll ever know the truth.
The video is a very good explanation of the crash. It’s possible a drone could have clipped the tail rotor causing a cascade of disintegration. It’s also possible the tail rotor drive shaft could be at fault. The tail rotor was the first thing to break off, then the main rotor.