Originally Posted by
bryancobb
I was just doing my unscientific dive into the falling rotor system. After zooming and watching the few seconds as the rotor was falling, It appears there was no "wobbling" as it was spinning, the blades appeared to be the same length, and they appeared to not be bent. The stable nature of the spinning rotor seems to indicate that the unsymmetrical mass at the gearbox-end of the mast IS NOT SPINNING. I would have a hard time believing the gearbox seized or locked-up. I'd appreciate others' thoughts.
That's what I saw. Even the SDR history of a chip light in the past doesn't steer me towards the transmission - there hasn't ever been a catastrophic seizure of a 206 MRGB as far as I know. Even the SDR about the chip light - I've had many a XMSN CHIP in these things when I used to fly them and never was worried that the thing was gonna crap out. Pretty robust and simple design, well proven.