Airbus Helicopters has issued a safety bulletin on Aug. 11 declaring all variants of the Tiger attack helicopter as unsafe. The bulletin came after a German Tiger crashed in Mali.
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By Clemens Vasters from Viersen, Germany, Germany (Airbus Helicopter Tiger) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The bulletin added that Airbus Helicopters cannot propose a protective measure as it “can neither identity the part, the failure of which would lead to the accident, nor the origin of the failure (design, manufacturing, maintenance).”