Blade Separation
 

Anyone give me a detailed explanation of this? Cheers

Probably a violent lurch is felt as your lights go out. If you are very unlucky you will feel the lurch, hear a lot of loud ugly noise, and you then have a few seconds to question why you are not stocking shelves at Tesco instead of being in a helicopter.

Colin Fry could probably put you in touch with a few people with first hand experience. Or have I misunderstood the question?

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I don't think there are any cockpit drills for this one.

Blade separated from aircraft = pilot separated from breath shortly afterwards.

Sasless Has it right on the money......... But would stacking shelves give any of the sheer excitement of flying an eggbeater:cool:

Blade separation:
 

During formation flying, the art of keeping one's blades separate from those of the rest of the formation. Essential for longevity. (Note: Do not try this at home. Best left to the experts)

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My apologies gents, shouyld have put it another way - anyone able to explan what actually happens to the blade - more on the technical side i.e reasons how and why it occurs.. cheers

Usually blades break off from "fatigue", meaning the blade has gone through more bending cycles than it was designed for or had a defect that was a stress riser.
A google search of "blade disbond" will get some hits about blade separation.

cheers mate