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Old 5th Mar 2013, 03:09
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Having been involved in this broken 412 collective lever from listening to the pilot trying to land the machine and the subsequent Bell investigation, I can categorically state that this failure has nothing to do with the collective being mis-rigged but metal fatigue possibly caused by overzealous shot peening during manufacture, if you had included the electron microscopic photo's of the shear plane it would give you a better understanding of that event.

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