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Sep 5, 2023 · The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB)'s final report said a tail rotor bearing seized, which in turn caused the crash. The AAIB said the crash was "inevitable" after a sequence of...
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Sep 6, 2023 · The AAIB inquiry found the control system failed because a bearing in the tail rotor broke up due to its ceramic balls sliding rather than rolling, caused by a build-up of pressure.
Sep 6, 2023 · The tail rotor duplex bearing likely experienced a combination of dynamic axial and bending moment loads which generated internal contact pressures sufficient to result in lubrication...
- Air Accidents Investigation Branch
Sep 6, 2023 · The seizure of the tail rotor bearing of the helicopter carrying Leicester City's chairman and four others led to a "sequence of failures" causing it to crash and kill everyone on board, a...
Sep 6, 2023 · The investigators found that problems with the bearing in the tail rotor of the Leonardo (LDOF.MI) AW169 helicopter began a sequence of failures leading to the crash. Italy's...
Investigators revealed that loss of control of the helicopter resulted from the tail rotor actuator control shaft (which controls the pitch of the tail rotor blades) becoming disconnected from the actuator lever mechanism that transmits the pilots' pedal inputs to control the helicopter's yaw.
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Dec 6, 2018 · The helicopter crash which killed the chairman of Leicester City and four other people was caused by a pin that had come loose in the tail rotor control mechanism, a report has revealed.
