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| Africa Subsaharan |
| German chopper lost rotor blades before Mali crash |
| 2017-09-05 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 I forget where I saw it, but somebody snarked that a helicopter consists of thousands of rotating parts, all of which are trying to kill you. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-09-05 21:50 |
| #3 A UH1B (Huey) in VN flew back with a "vibration" problem after a emergency extract where the pilot played weedeater. One blade was 18" short. The other was 3 ft shorter than that. Vibration. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-09-05 18:15 |
| #2 Add mast bump to the above list of possibles... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2017-09-05 14:38 |
| #1 Jesus nut not torqued properly? Not even installed? Full tanks, full load, first reduction in collective input and goodbye blades, hub, just about anything else attached. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2017-09-05 12:10 |