Lawyer helicopter crash bending Animation Loss

Griffith Park Helicopter Accident suffered loss of flexion www.baumhedlundlaw.com This animation shows the sections of the tail rotor yoke. The cross sections are reduced in thickness to allow the flexion (bending). The beam is designed, within defined parameters, without bending his strength. When a force strikes the tail rotor big enough to bend to inform them of the tolerance design, it can be "static overload" damage, a loss of compressive residual stress and creates resultresulting in fatigue fracture. Static overloads occur when the tail rotor is stationary, not when a helicopter in flight. static overload can be caused (for example, using the tail rotor blades as a handle to move the helicopter) improper ground collision with a vehicle, improper storage, removal, while the yoke is out of the gust of wind or helicopter and jet blast. The animation shows the bending bar 1) in its design tolerance and 2) beyond its design tolerance. TreeHedlund has prepared this animation as one of many, as evidence in the 2006 product liability trial in Los Angeles Superior Court against Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. and Bell Technical Services, Inc. are shown The study was carried out by Baum Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman. History: A Bell Model 205A-1 helicopter, owned and operated by the LAFD crashed in Griffith Park During an Airlift Rescue in Los Angeles March 23, 1998. The helicopter was a wounded child airlifta car ...