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Old 24th Aug 2013, 11:18
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Grenville, you are presuming that not only was this event caused by a technical issue, but also that it was detectable by HUMS. Two bold assumptions!

As II says, the nature of developing faults in helicopter transmission is that in general they can be detected many hours before becoming catastrophic. So to my mind, this accident was either not of a technical nature, or was of a failure mode not detectable by HUMS.
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