Speaking of accidents vs. manufacturer.
Is there any publicly accessible (internet) source that keeps a tally per year of accidents/fatal/minor vs. Brand ? Of course one would need the number of registered aircraft of each brand to draw any conclusion...
But then again, one would need a pilot-error/other-persons-error/aircraft-caused column in that statistics as well: If the ground crew tugs on the cable and pulls it in your rotor-disk it's neither pilot nor manufacturer, that is to blame.
I'm in no way well informed but the number of proven or alleged cases where the machine failed seem to be highest with Robinsons (SFAR73, mast bumping, mast rocking, "requiring" a governor...). I just don't hear that amount of technical issues reported about Enstroms or 300C(B(i)) or 47Gs.
But then if there were 1000 times more R22/44 flying than Enstroms+300C+47G combined it would be natural to constantly read about then. Hence my request for statistics accident data.
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