Squibb,
Gleason summed up the data-driven conclusions
Having been involved in efforts to improve the safety record of the American EMS industry....the one thing that became very plain is helicopter pilots are not very innovative in the ways they kill themselves, their med crew,. and their patients.
OEM organizations are not able to correct "Judgement" issues and poor airmanship.
All one has to do is throw in night flight in marginal weather conditions over inhospitable terrain....and the best designed helicopter often comes to grief because of the lack of brains between the headset found in some many aircraft.
Perhaps if we converted to UAV's....which would be a technical solution to a human failure....the OEM's could have a huge role to play.
I hold little hope of that ever happening as the human pilot is much cheaper than the digital version that would be required.
We all know the "system" would never allow that.