Unless of course it was her fault...just sayin'. :-)Originally Posted by Gerard
Unless of course it was her fault...just sayin'. :-)
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9
Its on the radio. Chopper is new, about a year old.
And I, I took the path less traveled by
and that has made all the difference......yet...
I have a feeling a handle of people are going to be very interested in what I post in the near future.
http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?userid=187
I'm hearing (well reading) that it could have been a main driveshaft failure!! There have been a number of 412 accidents lately with this being the cause,some fatal. I thought
the FAA had issued an Airworthiness Directive concerning that.
Wonder where the "ran out of fuel" rumor started? Cos they were returning to Base to refuel? Highly unlikely. A more likely scenario is that they knew they would be airborne for an
extended time on Presidential detail duty and being close to Base they figured they could do a quick hot fuel and load up before they needed to be on station.
Thankfully the only thing lost was the helicopter.
I searched for an AD for the 412, I found this one. Could this be it?
SUMMARY: This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the specified Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. (Bell) model helicopters. This action requires reidentifying a certain part-numbered main rotor yoke (yoke) based on whether it was ever installed on a Model 412CF helicopter or on a Model 412 or 412EP helicopter with a slope landing kit. This AD also requires reducing the retirement life of the reidentified yokes from 5,000 hours time-in-service (TIS) to 4,500 hours TIS. Also, this AD requires recording the reidentified yoke part number (P/N) and the reduced retirement life on the component history card or equivalent record. This amendment is prompted by fatigue analysis that shows that the retirement life should be reduced on certain yokes. The actions specified in this AD are intended to prevent fatigue cracking of a yoke, failure of a yoke, and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter.
this bird was just under a year old, so it would be AD compliant coming from th factory.
it is mathematically impossible for either hummingbirds, or helicopters to fly. fortunately, neither are aware of this.
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