Earpiece
I usually I have great respect for your clippings/info, generally good stuff well worth reading - however on this one like most miss-informed people you have made 2+2=6
There are no cracks to major components (tail boom bulkhead)as initialy offered by joepilot ( who comes across to me as a pure speculator for cheap gossip) the previous accidents have been due to scissor links fitted the wrong way round, due to arguable reasons, but I believe Agusta were less than clean with their maintenance manuals - we wait to see. the (potential)cracks that I believe you may be hearing about are to the tail rotor blades which needs checking every 10hrs and 25hrs untill replacements are sourced by Augusta, I trully know of no other cracking - and fly PT daily, with no life more valuable than mine !! Trust me
Initial question has been answered by other means - just so you don't think I'm avoiding that question aswell
[This message has been edited by swerve (edited 24 January 2001).]