As a former helicopter maintenance engineer, I can confidently say that if an AW169 lost a tail rotor blade then the gearbox will rapidly break free and depart from the airframe.
Helicopters with 4-bladed tail rotors might, with luck, throw the opposite blade too, thus putting the rotor back into some form of balance, but a 3-bladed tail rotor has no chance.
The pictures I have seen suggest that a tail rotor blade loss is highly unlikely to be the cause of this accident.