Augusta 109? Is this becoming a regular thing.
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Agusta!
The short answer is not as regular as your instincts might suggest.
I did a quick bit of research and asked about because they seem to be falling out of the sky in dozens.... so based on a number of opinions...
It seems that the first 50 A109E Powers have had a bad time of it. Of that first 50 no less than NINE have been written off ... and couple of them had earlier 'incidents' ... that is around 20% down and out.
Two [at least] were proven to be caused by badly fitted parts and two were involved in that bad run the Greek EMS service had.
The new crash is from a later batch.
So when you consider ALL of the Powers built there have it seems been TEN destroyed of around 267 - that is less worrying.