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    Houston chopper crash discussion

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    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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    Reminds me of an incident on the first offshore oil platform in Australia about 1970. A helicopter landing on the platform suffered a tail rotor failure as it was touching down. It killed a TV cameraman who was on the helipad filming the landing.

    The failure of the tail rotor was tracked down to the tail rotor being out of balance due to having a washer left out when being assembled, leaving it out of balance with a resulting fatigue failure.

    During the investigation, the washer was located in the workshop that had overhauled the rotor six months earlier - in between two floorboards under the bench.
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