Originally Posted by
AW009
@Nadar: From my point of view the game is already over. This is just not officially and publicly acknowledged, because the final report of AIBN still is pending.
‘Breakdown of suspension bar or of epicyclic gear box, what occurred first’, is rather an insignificant ‘hen or egg question’ due to a supserannuated design of (SUPER) PUMA. The results and similitudes are constant since years and since a series of crashs.
How do you reach a consensus without endless circular discussions (see http://www.pprune.org/9372108-post612.html)?
- Retrospective: The pitcher goes often to the well and gets broken at last.
- Prospective: Let us wish in a new technical savety-, performance- and market-scenario to H175 and to AH a prosper and sucessfull future and the very same to their competitors.
If it is a fatigue failure from torque loosening/overtorque, known for 10 years, mitigated only by an 825 hour inspection cycle that CHC insist they have diligently adhered to, then it will be game,set,match and tournament.
A horrible irony is this tragedy even took the life of the CHC union representative who tirelessly promoted safety.