Originally Posted by
riff_raff
You make a somewhat relevant point here. Except I would compare this EC225 helicopter problem to that experienced with the horizontal tail surface actuator jack screws on some
MD-80 commercial aircraft. Basically a combination of design and maintenance issues occurring at just the right time to cause a catastrophic failure.
Lessons learned, right?
The difference between those two fixed wing examples and the L2/225 failures is that the reason for the fixed wing failures was determined and rectified.