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Old 24th Jun 2000, 18:43
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flyerh
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Cool

As I am not prone to jumping to conclusions, am not a power driver and the fact that Agusta have already by insistence of the AAIB informed all Power operators throughout the world of this problem, you can judge for yourselves.

Both accidents did not take minutes to meeting the hard stuff. If they had, the consequenses could have been very different.

As the scissor link holds the pitch change links in the correct place and at the correct loading angle, if several attemps to pull pitch had been made the upright angle would have decreased causing the pitch links to depart company with the blades.

As for fitting the part the wrong way around, both accidents happened within two hours of the parts being fitted by the same company and, so far, none of the other 120 Powers thoughout the world have crashed.

Jumping to conclusions would be blaming the FADEC!