Lu:
You said: >>The manager of the Agusta R&M department in a pique of anger decided to remove all of the catastrophic failures from the FMEAs and I can only assume that Westland did not follow suit. The failures that caused the crashes of the EH-101 were originally predicted in the original FMEAs but they were removed as indicated above.<<
. .From what I gather you appear to be saying that the crashes of the EH-101 were predicted, but that an Augusta manager removed the predictions purely out of anger, and failed to tell Westland. Lu, you sure do have the biggest balls. What a call. You were not even alledging it, you were stating it!
From your previous posts you have claimed that you have often been engaged as an expert witness, so why didn't the families of those who lost their lives in the crashes pay your exhorbitant fee to tell this story? Don't you have a moral obligation to contact them and tell them that you know about the crash causes?
I imagine that you may yet have to be an expert witness in this case - in your own defence against the litigation that should follow your incredible claims. <img src="eek.gif" border="0">
As for the actual theory of shaft breakage, etc, it was well answered above by Weight & Balance, but being a reliability engineer, you already knew that answer, for it is your bread and butter, n'est pas?
By the way, did you ever ring the US Army (being a patriotic American) and warn them of their lack of night time stealth whilst flying helicopters at night in rarified desert air?
These huge calls you make are my reason for reading Pprune. Keep em comming!!
Edited to ammend the name of W & B
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