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Old 11th Aug 2006, 05:21
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13snoopy
 
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Originally Posted by Flashover999
Do any of you know any more about this accident? The thread went quiet soon after, has there been any further investigation or results?
Flash
I have heard (and take it for what it's worth) that POSSIBLY one of the pilots (not sure which one was actually flying the ship) possibly had a faint/stroke/heart attack and this caused him to slump forward against the cyclic, resulting in an obvious low-g pushover scenario from which the other pilot simply couldn't recover in time before the rotor chopped off the tail boom.
Again, it's pure speculation at this point but I have heard this from numerous sources here in the U.S.
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