Originally Posted by
Ascend Charlie
OK, it's definitely not the pilot's fault, it was LTE, which we all know applies to every helicopter ever built. Not.
To my simple mind, a T/R driveshaft failure would have had a much faster snap into the spin, rather than the slower build up to roll coupling shown in the film. As stated above, the only pilot effort to get out of it was right at the end where the nose suddenly poked down.
Should have seen the five seconds prior to the last video, at the very start it seems to have some forward speed, that could make a TR driveshaft failure not appear as dramatic as if in slow speed / hover. They probably do not have access to dots and spares, so fly until it break?