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Old 15th Apr 2024, 06:53
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inthegreen
 
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I remember when this happened. I was also flying the 222 for Air Methods at that time elsewhere in the country and this was a big deal. Our first impression was how unlucky it was for that actuator support to just fail like that and what a great job by the pilot to ride that out and land it. Amazing flying right there. That's probably the greatest feat of rotorcraft airmanship that I've ever heard about. Later we found out about the dowel pin being found previously, the maintenance staff not knowing what it was, not having the curiosity to find out, nor the good sense to take the aircraft out of service until they sorted it. That part was chilling. Thank you for the video. It was great to hear the whole story from the pilot.
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