Description
EASA has extended the comment deadline by one month to June 17, 2022, on a notice of proposed amendment to address three safety recommendations stemming from the investigation of an accident involving an Airbus Helicopters EC 225 LP on April 29, 2016, in Norway. All 13 persons aboard perished in the crash. The accident was a result of a fatigue fracture in a second stage planet gear in the epicyclic module of the main rotor gearbox. Cracks initiated from a micro-pit at the surface and developed subsurface to a catastrophic failure without being detected.
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