Originally Posted by
Pittsextra
Really? If rational is to mean based upon reason or logic then fears that have and had been expressed are entirely rational aren't they? The view you express today was similar back in 2012 and then the 2016 accident occurred. The new discoveries since 2016 seemed to come through simply looking harder. Remember a companies reputation is a combination of the technology, the people and the culture. Its a bit beyond just the tech or the other words at the time of putting big boy pants on....
Rational is to mean based on reason or logic. Fear tends not to be reasonable or logical. Your average pax can’t possibly be expected to evaluate all the many factors that would allow us to say that helicopter x is safer than helicopter y. The experts on here can’t agree, so clearly it would be ludicrous to imply that an amorphous group of people called “the pax” could come up with the right answer. The pax will instead look at which helicopter crashed most recently on their patch, what the Daily Mail and social media had to say about it, and whether they find riding in the back of it pleasing to the posterior. All of which is fair enough and human nature, but it doesn’t mean they will come up with an accurate evaluation of the relative safety of various different types of helicopter.