The helicopter Starflex rotor head and drive train flexible couplings exhibited the torsional damage signatures typically associated with
sudden rotor stoppage under considerable driving power. -
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Information received from the operator and from the maintenance organisation indicated that there had been no known
tail rotor strike or sudden rotor stoppage since the helicopter was placed on the Australian aircraft register in 1992. -
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The TSB Engineering Laboratory examination of the tail rotor drive shaft determined that the direction of the torsional overload failure indicated a
sudden stoppage of the tail rotor blades, -
http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/1998/a98w...