A fixation with fatals ?
We're strange creatures. Look at the fixation with the CM crash on this forum. That same weekend another 2 fatalities didn't happen 24 hrs later when the Prodrive EC135 ended a flight on its side in a field. Hardly a word of enquiry here.
Shouldn't we - as an industry, as professionals - be concerned with EVERY unexplained incident ? Not just the fatals. The obsession with fatals here, when they happen, is bordering on the disturbing. It seems to be the same mentality that drives the press who get scorned upon by so many here.
Our regulators, too, seem obsessed with only recording data on accidents that kill people. If you ask the CAA for accident data, it's all fatal accidents - not all accidents - that they send.
Bearing in mind that the actual difference between a fatal and non-fatal can be something that is nothing to do with the actual flight or the cause of the accident, shouldn't we lose this obsession ?