Pretty much every wide body aircraft we fly on to get to our jobs (those of us touring in the oil industry) has had a catastrophic accident at some point in it's life and we still travel on them. 747 center fuel tanks exploding, MD11 entertainment system fires, A330 pitot icing, 767 thrust reverser operating in flight etc etc. Not to mention basically every type of helicopter we travel in too.
True, but for example there have been more than 1400 747's built in the last 42 years, those have flown I can't imagine how many hours, but the AW139 has only what 400 built since 2003? how many hours flown, years in production, and # of acft, vs. acccidents?
That makes the accident rate of the 139 gigiantic by comparasion.