Originally Posted by Yankee Whisky
Many of you are writing about propeller failure etc. When I look at the pictures, the whole bloody gearbox departed with the props. Does that make it a propeller blade failure or a gearbox failure ? Please let the official investigation determine cause, OK?
Yankee Whisky,
For one who knows how to read the tea leaves, it is an obvious failure originating at a flaw at the blade root. The stop marks are very visible in BEA's picture of the failed hub.
The blade left first. The question then is, why did it get that far?