Tail rotor trouble

A helicopter's tail rotor stops the fuselage turning against the main rotor. These records are failures of either rotor, and loss of tail rotor effectiveness - an uncommanded yaw, often at low speed in a crosswind, that the pedals can't stop.

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• Dark, cloudy and cold Occurrences at night, in instrument conditions, in the winter months of their own hemisphere.
• Ditchings Deliberate landings on water, and what came after.
• Hijackings Aircraft seized in flight, from the 1960s hijacking wave onward.
• Bombs on board Aircraft destroyed or damaged by explosives and sabotage.