The owner of NY Helicopter Charter is Michael Roth Helicopter was leased from Meridian Helicopters out of Louisiana which seems to be run by a regular white guy. There was a non-fatal crash in 2013 involving the same two companies. A third maintenance company was sued as a result of the 2013 accident. Who knows who does their maintenance now.
The type of catastrophic failure needed to simultaneously cut the tail rotor from the main body, completely remove the main rotor, and do it without a major visible exterior explosion... would be unimaginable on a properly maintained aircraft.
Something HUGE had to have caused the entire drive train to fail, instantly lock up both rotors, and cause them to sheer off.
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Something HUGE had to have caused the entire drive train to fail, instantly lock up both rotors, and cause them to sheer off.
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The entire flight from take-off to splash-crash was less than 20 minutes. Shit doesn't add up.
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