I received an email this morning from an engineer involved with the event in question. He stated there was an overtorque, the pilot downplayed the event, the incident was reported to Tehran, the Area Engineer said to take a look at it and if nothing was found to leave the aircraft serviceable. That was done.
The tail rotor gearbox failed without the aircraft coming into contact with the tower.
The prior over torque was not mentioned in the accident report and the Engineers involved in the matter wrote a joint letter detailing what had happened and company policy was changed to require compliance with techncal manuals for all future over torques.
I hope this puts this matter to rest.
This engineer is one of the signers of that letter and was directly involved in
maintenance of the particular aircraft in question at the time of the accident.
Whose travel money is Freddie using for his trips these days?