Originally Posted by
Mogwi
The pilot reported that he lost control of the aircraft after I passed overhead. He thought that he had had a tail rotor failure and tried to throw it onto the side of the hill. From my inspection of the wreckage, he most certainly did have a tail rotor failure - caused by the tail hitting the ground hard! There was a classic "barley twist' in the t/r drive shaft. I first saw this type of damage at the court martial of a Puma pilot at Odiham in the early 70s. (He got off).
mog
I can well understand his thoughts. I’ve no doubt your vortices would have made handling the aircraft quite tricky! I’ve always thought that tail rotors are dangerous things!