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Old 9th Dec 2013, 23:01
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...at the time of the impact but that neither the main rotor nor the fenestron tail rotor were rotating.
....the helicopter struck the flat roof of the single story building with a high rate of
descent and low/negligible forward speed.


If the rotor is not rotating there is no gyroscopic stability. No/negligible (forward) velocity, the report says. Wind was a few knots. If still in the air, the a/c would topple. Now suppose that before impact the rotor was rotating very slowly. A slowly moving rotor blade would probably the first contact with a hard object which would bounce off, make a heck of a din, gather speed and the a/c could topple 'end over end' across hard objects making a tortured noise like a massive lawn scarifier over a stone path. I wonder if they need to widen the search a little for another point of first impact where a blade hit?
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