Crashworthiness of small Heli's
Sadly we are reading of another R22 that has crashed with one fatal , also there seems to have been an Enstrom that crashed with three walking away.
I realise it could be said "How long is a piece of string" when talking about small helicopter accidents and the way they react when coming to a rapid halt by meeting the ground possibly at the wrong angle or speed, but just how crashworthy are these small helicopters, do the manufacturere's follow a strict modern code which is monitered and upgraded, or are they building bodies and fittings to some design type from way back in the 50's, 60's or 70's when the standards were pretty low!
Are they tested by dropping from some known height without any form of restraint or are they sledge tested against some static heavy object?
PeterR-B
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