Originally Posted by
henra
The picture of that whole tail rotor and reading that they found it together with the canvas 600m away from the wreckage is chilling. Personally I wouldn't have thought that it would tear the whole tailrotor off including hub&all. With the whole tailrotor physically gone I'm not sure how good even theoretical possibilities to survive this would have been. Even with immediate entering of autorotation.
It wasn't just the T/R assembly but the entire blade/gearbox assembly that departed the aircraft. Unfortunately, with that much weight suddenly removed at that arm, no recovery is possible theoretically or realistically because the CG shoots so far out the front all longitudinal control authority is lost.
Not a good day for all involved.
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