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Old 26th August 2025 | 22:45
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Amateur observation: Could the tail rotor have been lost at impact? It is suggested in this thread:

... but massive vertical crushing.
Could the 'bounce' as it hit the deck have caused a whiplash of the tail boom, so that the weight of the rotor and gearbox caused it to fracture?
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