There was an article in Todays Pilot a while back about Autogyros - can't remember quite when, but it had an Extra 300 on the cover. Looked like fun, but I'm not brave enough for that...
IIRC, many of the accidents were associated with people buying, homebuilding and then flying them from their back garden (so to speak) with little or no training or quality control. I think it may have been a single - cheap? - type (which remains banned) but I'm not how reliable my memory is. <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0">