maxwelg, there are no L2's in Canada -unless you have real interesting rumor information you can share. Of course, everything else you could fly instead of an L2 has also crashed at least once, so I hope you didn't have your heart set on a flying a helicopter type that has never crashed.
Never heard the Brazilian L2 had any mechanical problem, I wonder where that information is coming from. The Malaysians had a streak of poor maintenance decimating their 332 fleet but everything else has been pilot error of some sort, and to most of us proving the reliability of the L2. Our surprise at a mechanical issue downing this L2 is the reason we are all so interested in the cause of this latest crash. If we were all satisfied just waiting for the AAIB report we wouldn't bother reading this forum.
Compared to other events it has been quite a while since the crash to have absolutely no information. Such as, the eyewitnesses on the ship that watched it crash, why have we had nothing at all in the way of a description of what they saw? Enough divers looking at it and parts mapped or recovered, were any significant components any distance away from the main site? Not a word from Eurocopter, no even some sanctimonious suggestions from oil company aviation advisors, that are normally quick to suggest fixes to their operators before any facts are in.