But even the whitewash is sobering, Beags. As you say the summaries say little, but the stats tell their own story. The spike in the number of deaths resulting form the Chinook crash at Mull in 1994, more than doubling the 1993 deaths. Of course the drastic cuts in the military aviation fleet over the years has to be borne in mind when one sees the graphs dipping ever further to the right hand corner.