The relatives of Le and Chen launched civil proceedings and secured an out-of-court agreement for an undisclosed amount.
Additionally, the National Transportation Safety Board published its conclusions in October 1984, establishing the “probable cause of the accident was the detonation of debris-laden high-temperature special effects explosions too near a low-flying helicopter”.This had resulted in “foreign object damage to one rotor blade and delamination due to heat to the other rotor blade, the separation of the helicopter’s tail rotor assembly, and the uncontrolled descent of the helicopter”. Continue reading…
