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That will be for the court to decide.

To summarize for those to lazy to read the report. A bearing in the tailrotor control crosshead siezed. This led to a cascade of failures that ultimately resulted in the tailrotor control becoming detached. The helicopter crashed due to loss of tailrotor control. I'm guessing Leonardo's defense will be that they did not manufacture the bearing, they specified what the bearing should be capable of doing, a company supplied them with a bearing rated to achieve this, but it failed. Will the family then go after the bearing manufacturer ?

EuroDiner Ratvithi Rd, opens at 7am. A couple of choices depending on how big you want your breakfast. Delicious food, nice staff.

An inferior alternative to Marmite in my opinion !

Also, I believe that some of the hospitals have a living will form.

I would definitely recommend a lawyer. However, my friend gave his verbally to a Doctor & Nurse from McKean in front of witnesses & the staff honored it to the end.

I totally agree. So which orthopedic surgeon would you folks recommend in Chiang Mai, or even Thailand ?

officers discovered one tonne of Ice in one pickup and 1.464 tonnes in the other. Damn they build those trucks strong ! Out of the factory they're probably rated for about 700kg.

It was not a mistake during maintenance, it was a bearing that failed, last I heard (4 yrs ago) they had not determined why it failed, but others were found during subsequent inspections that were in the process of failing.

I was a Licenced Engineer on a helicopter (AW189) with the same tail rotor control as the AW169. The reason there was no further accidents, is that after the accident, the engineers were required to carry out detailed inspections every 10 flying hours & to dismantle parts of the tail rotor control to do further detailed checks every 30 flying hours. The root cause of the failure in the accident was a seized bearing. During our inspections we sometimes found problems in those bearings & replaced them. Disclaimer: I have been out of the helicopter buisness for 4 years now & I haven't kept up with developments since then.

Nice idea, but I don't expect to see it in CM or Phuket in my lifetime.

Just a bit of added info from a friends experience. You are given a 5 year re entry ban when they throw you out. BUT, you have to jump thru a lot of hoops with the Immigration Department to have that ban removed from your record, my friend tried to board a plane to Thailand at the end of the 5 yrs & was refused boarding.

I would think the shops behind Worrorot market would have plenty of selection.

No, but it's actually been suprisingly good most days considering the time of year. Mornings tend to be worst with the cold air holding the smoke down in the valley. But its getting steadily worse & this is unlikely to change until the rains come.

161 & can't see across the valley in Pai.