Sans.....just using the 130,000 hour figure used by Bell.....does that include all flight time from Test Flight 1? I am just asking the question....and using their data....so how many FATAL crashes have there been.....and you pick the benchmarks re flight time! What is the percentage of Fatal/Non-Fatal Accidents? If Bell and the Marine Corps
PR folks want to throw out numbers....then let's see what they are based upon and how they arrive at their results.
Four Bell 212's I flew in Nigeria exceeded that amount of flight time....high time bird had either 37,000 or 41,000 hours alone....I know one had 37,000 as I flew its last Flight....and kept the Clock as a Souvenir.
It was sold off as scrap....and has been rebuilt and is flying again somewhere in Canada last I heard.
So 130,000 hours is not a whole lot of flight time in reality.