Originally Posted by
Hompy
No moral high ground here but interesting you think I dumped any bias because I really couldn’t give a t8##! I just don’t like pilots/engineers/crewman or families of dead people suffering because some idiot has to massage their ego instead of getting a decent hobby, is all.
Hompy, to be fair to all the helicopters, (Birds!.........eeeew), many perfectly serviceable ones have been sent for an early bath by our brethren for a whole variety of reasons. Mostly **** training before hand or a copilot paralysed by lack of procedures and intervention policies.
so when a “Bird”.......eeeeew, goes in at night shortly after take off it’s as fair an assumption as any........until that image of the tail boom appeared on the thread. Oh how the old hill of hindsight makes everything and everyone that went before seem inept.
i think the current armchair thesis is.....”The tail fell off”