A very interesting item in the BHT IL is that there have been '2 incidents in the Texas gulf coast area involving the Model 407 since November of this year'.
There are no relavent entries in the NTSB accident database.
This either suggests these were truely more minor incidents (and not related to 'people dying in 407s' as speculated above) or as discussed in past posts, that the US system is supressing events that other countries would class as accidents.
It would be REALLY useful if anyone of those people close enough to have confirmed the PHI groundings / wheel changes could actually say what happen in these 2 incidents.
Meanwhile, a trivial point - how come the fleet hours have gone from passing 1 million in November to 1.4 million now?
EDIT: After looking through past threads, the ditching of N405PH just after take off from a rig nine miles south of Marsh Island (reported on 16 Nov) is probably one. The absence of this accident from the NTSB database is rather worrying.
Last edited by zalt; 19th Dec 2003 at 01:25.