Redacted report tabled in Senate reveals findings of investigation into March 2023 MRH-90 incident, while questions over later crash continue
An Australian Army MRH-90 Taipan Battlefield Mobility helicopter seen on a flypast in 2022. A report said the failure of an HP1 blade – previously raised by the manufacturer as a risk – caused ‘the catastrophic, but contained, engine failure’ in a 2023 Jervis Bay incident.An Australian Army MRH-90 Taipan Battlefield Mobility helicopter seen on a flypast in 2022.
But he said Defence had advised him that “there is a significant risk that release of the full report and associated documents at this time may influence the willingness of personnel to participate in other investigations, which may impede ongoing investigations into the incident of Lindeman Island on 28 July 2023”.
It said while this incident “was the first of this type” experienced by an ADF MRH-90 Taipan, the manufacturer had issued a service bulletin in 2017 “as a result of several HP1 failures across the global fleet”. Officials had decided to modify the engines as per the manufacturer’s recommendations “during routine deeper-level maintenance programs”.
The investigation found “the crew were more than likely not experiencing acute fatigue on the day of the mission”.
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