Simply loosing a tail rotor shouldn't bring it down and most definitely not having the thing disintegrate from 300 feet before hitting the ground.
Drop collective, cut the throttle glide down.
There has to be more to the story.....

A tuning hammer? The Safari bozos are just shooting in the dark, We had all the dynamic fixes done with Reeds machine. and they turned a deaf ear.

Titanium isn't fixing nothing, Adding meat isn't going to fix nothing. Can't fix stupid.

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Here is my guess .... and that is all it is is a guess

Safari has always had a low frequency vibration problem that transmits thru the fuselage and shows up in weird places like the tip of a skid which will bounce up and down in flight .... or a shake in the tailboom or somewhere else .... and my jaw would drop when the recommended solution was to strap a bag of lead shot to the skid to stop it from bouncing

There have been cases where the whole rotor system has broken off and departed the helicopter ... and killed the pilot and passenger .... the last one I think was an off duty sheriff and his wife out for an evening flight ,

I think it is because the 2-per-rev shake of the teetering rotor has no place to go .... the mast is too rigid ... so the shake shows up somewhere else in the fuselage

The Bell 47 has the engine , transmission and mast in a rubber mounted cradle that allows the whole assembly to move and oscillate up to 6 inches .... the Helicycle and Rotorway use elasomeric bearings in the head to soak up the 2-per-rev vibration

As far as I know the Safari Baby-Bell has no accommodation for the 2-per vibration ... thus the whole aircraft ends up shaking and flexing and bending .... until something breaks ... that is my guess , and one of the reasons I shied away from them .... the factory was in Ontario .... only 6 hour drive for me.

Whenever I asked the factory or owner-builders that question I received deathly slilence ... it was like they had a fear to realize a design flaw or something ... I could be wrong so somebody feel free to correct me ..... I love the Safari , but to this day they still have a "shake problem"

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Tim .... you would know .... isn't the Safari transmission and main rotor mast assembly bolted solid to the airframe ?

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We had the main gearbox on a node frame that flexed and removed all the excess weight in the airframe & that pos control fly-bar? Gone, straight p/p tubes, chord weights inboard on the blade root, and tip ( The too flexible blades would flex down in low pitch & pylon whirl would raise it's ugly head , Both tabs positive to keep the tips loaded ++ reduced the margin for whirl), a crash resistant fuel system
and skids that had a complete cross tubes that pivoted on bolts .

It was sold to an idiot who balled it up from 50 feet hit. It so hard the seat belts (3" wide racing type) left marks on him. If it was a standard safari he would of died.