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Old 17th Mar 2017, 01:47
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army_av8r
 
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Malabo, Yes I am a pilot with almost 5,000 hours, with a vast majority in very low altitude flight profiles/ wire environments. If you watch the video I linked, it is clear that after the ground wire was severed by the tail rotor, it then wrapped around TRGB, and caused the loss of the tail rotor assembly. The cable then remained attached to the tailboom. once the aircraft began to spin it caused the main rotor and cable to entangle which caused the failure of the main rotor and loss of control. after getting the tail wrapped, its my personal opinion that recovery may have been difficult or impossible. obviously keep fighting till the end, but unfortunately this may have unavoidable after contact and entanglement.
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