We cooked an Allison to a crisp this afternoon...a minor case of buying a $40,005.15 throttle cable to replace the defective cable. The young lad at the controls was not at fault...thus he gets a walk. Now on the other hand...if I could find a way to identify the engineer that missed the problem on the previous dozen hundred hour inspections....that might be a different case.
Actually....this on the face of it...appears to be one of dem thangs that comes with the helicopter business. Simple items fail and cost you your annual profit by ruining expensive things.