v-p, my answers would not...could not...change. If an attorney asked me those very questions, there is only one way I could answer. In all my years of flying, I've never had a transmission problem of any kind (other than the spurious chip light). Next witness, please!
In fact...I'm trying to think...I only know of *one* guy who's ever had a transmission failure. He was in a Puma near Atlantic City, New Jersey (U.S.) when it happened. The year was 1978. Fortunately for him, he lived. I don't remember the details, but I do remember that it was hair-curlingly scary to hear them.
Category A. Unless such failures are extremely remote, it must be shown by test that...
Maybe the
possibility of transmission failure isn't extremely remote, but the number of actual "such failures" does seem to be. And that is what Sikorsky will argue.