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2nd Mar 2020, 00:15

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megan

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It takes very little to fatally score a drive shift.

Friend cranked up a 212, took off, experienced a high freq and promptly landed. A screw driver had been left in the tail rotor tunnel and in that short time had cut half way through the shaft.

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