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Old 2nd Mar 2020, 05:49
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Originally Posted by Ascend Charlie

Ouch...
The morning DJ on 2-MMM, Doug Mulray, said "Poor old Polair Two - last night they were practising emergency landings, and he cut his own @rse off!"
There might be several reasons for that incident if the intention was a ”all the way down” autorotation... e.g. that the pilot never levelled the helicopter before touchdown... if the tailguard is touching the ground first; the tailboom will ”jump up” and the MR will cut the boom immediately...
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