Nick,
Actually, the cyclic did "jump" out of the pilot's hand, there was thigh bruising, and the cyclic was unresponsive to inputs for a couple of seconds. I say a couple of seconds, because it only took 4.5 seconds from onset to a totaled aircraft. There were 8 nearly identical incidents in the NTSB reports in the past 20 years. I know that is not many considering how many hours per year the Bell 206 flies, but most resulted in a totaled aircraft and permanent disability and/or fatalaties.
Saber