Originally Posted by
Bell_ringer
Please substantiate this claim.
According to RHC recent announcements about 2016 sales stats 60% of their helicopters are shipped outside of the US.
I'm totally OK with being 100% wrong about that claim, Bell_ringer. Even if it is true that 60% or even 70% of total Robinson fleet hours per year occur outside the US, that still doesn't account for the vast differential in fatal events between the US and the rest of the world: in 27 months ending 1 Apr 2017, 3 fatal events (5 total deaths) in the US, vs. 58 worldwide (events or deaths, not sure, article did not specify).
Let's say it's 58 deaths, because the media will always go for the bigger, scarier number when digging up stat's and there are more deaths than accidents. Let's further assume the US only accounts for 30% of the relevant fleet hours. If you normalize the US contribution of deaths to 100% of the fleet hours, the US is contributing deaths at a rate of less than 1/3 that of the rest of the world.
SFAR 73 could be part of the reason why.