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Wife is pregnant, and this was the first visit, we get to see the ultrasound and first 8 week checkup.

We were hoping for twins, because they're common in both our families, and turns out, we did have twins.

one baby is at 8 weeks 5 days, the other one the nurse said got to probably 7 weeks and for some reason or another, stopped growing, and has no heartbeat. We can see one has a strong heartbeat and she said is growing very strong, but the other, as she put it, 'just stopped' and will be likely pushed aside.

We were both extremely sad over this. It hit really hard, even though we have one baby on the way, it was just like looking at two almost same size fetus side by side, one living, one not, and just all the possibilities of who this kid could have been.

It was just like, "a clump of cells" but it was more than that for us.

anyway, another White baby making it's way into the world. It's just bittersweet, almost was two.

https://youtu.be/fpsraaMDK84?si=Aazl43YdQunmhlra

Certified Airframe & Powerplant mechanic with 14 years/5 different platforms of Helos under my belt.
I saw this video on a social media platform. As soon as I saw the fuselage falling, I instantly saw no tailboom attached.
My first thought was inflight collision, but quickly realized there's no evidence of that. Second thought was structural failure of some sort. All of the Bell Helicopters I've worked on all been Semi-artuculate rotor heads. I've never once heard of a mast bumping incident resulting in an incident. Doesn't mean it's not possible though.

I want to present another possibility from a mechanic point of view. On a larger Bell helicopter, the tailboom had 4 mount bolts that had to get replaced for - Life Limited - exceedance. We would do this during a phase or reset after specific flight hour intervals.
If this particular model has a mounting bolt inspection or torque check an improperly installed mounting bolts would be catastrophic event in flight. I personally always thought the design was to simplistic and had no fail-safe design Incase of improper install or fatugue failure.
In aviation helicopters have what we call the "Jesus nut". If the torque fails in-flight your praying to Jesus before meeting him. The tailboom bolts are just as important as it connects and supports everything in the tail rotor system.
Pray for the innocent children. To many people take aviation safety for granted and don't understand how much effort goes into making airplanes and helicopters fly safe everyday in this country.
We call it attention to detail. One small detail can cause a major incident and loss of life in aviation. Pilots have to be perfect, mechanics and ground crew have to be perfect. Mistakes aren't allowed in our industry.
Perhaps someone made a mistake, or just structural fatigue. Only inspectors will determine the outcome. I know I sure would like to read the aircraft logbook and see who performed what maintenance. Then interview those mechs.

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