Black hawk down -

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Originally Posted by JohnDixson

Maybe 212. Hard to say much from that short clip. At one point you can see a bunch of aft flapping over the nose and I looked to see the stabilator angle but couldn’t determine with any certitude. The S-70 has 25% more hinge offset than the S-61, thus a lot of main rotor control power ( hub moment ). One assumes those aircraft were delivered with all the maintenance pubs etc, but I’ve no idea what sort of maintenance training if any, had yet been put in place.
The following comment dates back to a Persian Gulf marketing trip with a team from Westland in the 1980’s, but a general impression in those countries was that while piloting had substantial status, maintenance work had the opposite and thus they had difficulty interesting young men to become helicopter maintenance qualified. Maybe different now? Don’t have any contact with folks who dealt with the Afghanis in this area.

The mishap obviously startet way above all powerlines:

https://fb.watch/fva2HYLllB/

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