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Old 11th Mar 2011, 00:58
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at such low level, and high weight, it would be near impossible to enter an auto rotation.

In Michael Durant's autobiography, he says that when the tail rotor failed, the helicopter started spinning so quickly that the centrifugal force made it impossible for the co-pilot to cut the throttles almost immediately.
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