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Old 30th Aug 2008, 20:01
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gulliBell
 
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There are cases of main drive shaft failure in 412 that have resulted in complete loss of drive and forced landing autorotation (one noteable in Australia about 13 years ago with a new 412 on a test flight, aircraft was badly damaged).

(For those who aren't familiar with 212/412 the PT6T twin-pac engine has a single power output shaft from a combining gearbox driving the main rotor).
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