Originally Posted by
Cyclic Hotline
He has been in two helicopter crashes in 7 months - this part is probably worthy of an analysis!
Actually, the VP was not *in* the first incident (he had been dropped already). Also, as far as I read it, in the first incident the aircraft made a safe landing back to the pad. But you are probably right; anything from sabotage to endemic poor maintenance or skill levels need to be considered when trying to link those two accidents incidents together.
However, streaks (e.g., of good or bad luck) are part of randomness. And without streaks a distribution is not random. As a matter of fact, when forensic auditors look a presumably random data, the absence of streaks make them suspect it could be cooked.