Originally Posted by
Soave_Pilot
You mean that because the NTSB said the main rotors were both still attached to the hub, and the tailcone assembly was not mentioned to be broken off the helo?
Yes that was where I took my assumption from. Losing a part of the blade sufficient to lead to a loss of the entire Rotor assembly (especially in a 2-Blade teetering Rotor) usually leads to tremendous and characteristic disintegration already mid-air.
I assumed signs of any such occurences would have been mentioned if they were present.
A cut off the M/R w/o too much other disintegration points more towards a 'classic' low- G occurence.
At this point this is obviously all speculation but sadly we have a rather solid history of incidents with the Robbies to look for similarities. And there are more than a few...