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Final Report: Manufacturing flaw LED to rotor blade crack
Bell 206L-3, Abilene, Texas, March 29, 2009
–The NTSB determined the fatigue crack in the trailing edge of a main rotor blade was caused by
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Curt Epstein
• Senior Editor
August 2, 2010
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