Originally Posted by
The Sultan
The most disturbing thing to me is that the span location of the blade failure on the Canada accident is no where near the span location of the suspect failure on the New York accident (post 259, this thread). This indicates two separate root causes. It is interesting that both aircraft were operated in roles known for high GAG cycle rates.
I suppose a blade could have lost a weight pocket initially, with subsequent failure causing the full separation of the remaining span (unlike NYC where the majority remained attached)
