@Undertow
Don't have a youtube account to ask a question, but if I had I would ask what the chances would be for those blades to break at their joint with the shaft, if the tips hit loose regolith.

@65dBnoise
I do have an account and already asked one related question but may have got lost in the mass of comments. Anyway they are apparently about to get to the crash soon.

@Undertow
So #Flight71 was indeed very problematic; it came down with a lateral speed of 1m/s, which explains what we saw in the RTE image from that flight.

@Undertow
There is not tip hitting the ground. The most plausible cause is coming down very hard. QED.

@65dBnoise
Well we've finally got some informed speculation from this livestream. Interesting they now think navigation was confused by the helicopter's shadow causing the crash landing. That was new as well. And Ingenuity has been updated to take photographs as long as it can even with no comms with Perseverance. WANDY 🙂

@Undertow
Yes, #WANDY !
Thanks for sharing the link for this very interesting and indeed, very informative live interview.
Travis Brown has offered more info that I've heard from the team for a long while.

@65dBnoise
I'm wondering if the "Ingenuity 2" comment might suggest that there is a thought of sending sample return prototypes on a standalone mission to join up with Perseverance. It could be a long time before the sample return mission and it would be relatively low cost to send just two helicopters in advance which could join with Perseverance and prove they can deliver samples plus a lot more. Probably just me dreaming but seems there is an arguable case to do this!