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Old 15th July 2019 | 00:24
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The Sultan
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It looks in the video like the boom and fin are attached. If the tailboom had separated the ship would flip not spin in relatively level attitude. So loss of tail rotor thrust for whatever reason seems obvious. As the 505 has a well proven drivetrain design error can be excluded. This leaves maintenance error, FOD or bird strike as probable causes.
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