given that maintenance error appears to be a very real possibility.
Maybe, maybe not.
Is it true that the person who started the online petition is a UK Independence Party candidate in Rochdale, Lancashire standing for election this week?
Kinda reminds me of Transmission Mount issues on the early Jet Boxes!
Or indeed this problem of how the lift is transmitted to the fuselage on another type and cracks resulting in an AD:
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/394...box-crack.html