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An Accident can totally disrupt and completely change your life. The way in which you engage in your daily activities can be significantly altered and you may be forced to endure a great deal of pain.

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This animation shows the cross-sections of the tail rotor yoke. The cross-sections are of reduced thickness to allow for flexure (bending). The yoke is designed to bend within fixed parameters without losing its strength. If a force strikes the tail rotor large enough to bend it beyond its design tolerance, it may result in “static overload” damage, which creates a loss of residual compressive stress and a resulting fatigue fracture. Static overloads occur when the tail rotor is stationary, not when a helicopter is in flight. Static overload can be caused by improper ground handling (such as using the tail rotor blade as a handhold to move the helicopter), collision with a vehicle, improper bearing removal while the yoke is off the helicopter, and wind gust or jet blast. The animation shows the flexure of the yoke 1) within its design tolerance; and 2) outside of its design tolerance.

Baum Hedlund had this animation prepared as one of several to be shown as evidence during the 2006 product liability trial at Los Angeles Superior Court against Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., and Bell Technical Services, Inc. The trial was conducted 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 operation in Los Angeles on March 23, 1998. The helicopter was airlifting an injured child from a car accident when the helicopter’s tail rotor yoke failed and caused the aircraft to crash, destroying the helicopter and killing the child, two LAFD paramedics and an LAFD helicopter apparatus operator.

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Two carjacking suspects were in custody Wednesday after the vehicle in which they were fleeing from deputies crashed into a pickup truck in South Los Angeles, killing the man who was driving it, authorities said.

Paramedics sent to Century Boulevard west of Vermont Avenue shortly before 7 a.m. pronounced a man dead at the scene, d’Lisa Davies of the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

Miguel Castro Falcon, 46, of Los Angeles, died in the accident, said Capt. Ed Winter of the coroner’s office.

The vehicle, a Toyota Camry, that crashed into the truck had been carjacked at gunpoint shortly before 5 a.m., Deputy Johnie Jones of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau said.

Deputies saw it about 7 a.m. and started chasing it, but backed off when they were told it was just a stolen vehicle, Jones said. It then crashed into the pickup truck.

The passenger in the Camry was arrested at the scene after getting into one of several other vehicles that were involved in the collision and trying to pass himself off as a victim, deputies said.

The driver fled but was caught about 90 minutes later, Jones said.

Both suspects were 16 years old, Los Angeles police said.

“I felt that they left him in the car too long,” Charles Rhodes, who said Falcon’s sons were in his karate class. “He (sat) there and suffered for about 10 minutes before he died. And that’s unfortunate, that a police pursuit went bad.”

The watch commander called off the chase “figuring that … the suspect would slow down and nobody would get injured from the incident.”

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Eagle Rock — Authorities say road rage may have played a part in a deadly crash that was originally attributed solely to street racing.

The investigation began late Wednesday night after the woman, her younger sister and a young man were killed after their car smashed into a tree and burst into flames in the Eagle Rock area.

Officer Marjan Mobasser said Thursday that detectives spoke with witnesses at the scene and now believe the more likely cause of the crash is some type of road rage incident. She did not have further details, adding that the investigation was in its early stages.

One of three vehicles involved in the incident was driven by 20-year-old Cristyn Nicole Cordova, who police say was eight months pregnant.

Also killed were Cordova’s sister, Toni Marie Cordova, 16, who had been in the backseat, and a 19-year-old Los Angeles man who was ejected from the vehicle, said istant Coroner’s Chief Ed Winter. His name was not released.

Two other males in the vehicle were ejected and in grave condition at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena.

“This is the grisly, gruesome result of a street race that started long before this collision,” LAPD Lt. John Romero said at the scene.

The driver of a car believed to have been involved in the street race, a 19-year-old man, remained at the scene and was arrested on suspicion of murder, Guillary said.

Witnesses reported that a third vehicle was also involved, but its driver fled and was being sought by authoritie

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Mission 4 – Formula 1 crash.

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Mr. Hedlund describes wake turbulence as, “round swirls of air that come off the ends of the wings”. It occurs when planes take off from the same runway in a short period of time. Reports say that AA Flight 587 took off just under two minutes after another jumbo jet, which is against FAA regulations. All 260 people aboard the Airbus A300 were killed along with five other people on the ground.
The airline disaster law firm of Baum Hedlund represented seven victims from this accident.

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