Originally Posted by
megan
Sounds like a wild, wild ride. Back seat crew pinned against the ceiling, then secured patient and strapped them selves in, shut down the engines following the crash, talk about professionalism, and walked out uninjured. Anything to be read into the statement, or might it just be a post crash occurrence? Not familiar with type.
Nothing to be read into that. When the tail severed it would have sheared through the flexball which is a semi-rigid cable that comes up at the rear right of the fuselage then runs under the tail rotor drive shaft to the tail. Once severed it could quite easily have then whipped up into the still turning rotor and become entangled. If severed near the front of the fin there would be enough to be described as “entangled”
If severed in flight, it would have had to have also escaped from the tail rotor drive shaft fairing. Gross mishandling has in the past resulted in main rotors contacting the tail boom, but it would have to have severed the shaft before reaching the cable, which I don’t think happened.
so basically I think this is a post accident artefact.