500fan: chill out babes!
I did read the report (FFS).
If...IF one was to put it down to "comes with the territory", I think most of you here would have to accept that (considering possibly thousands of HEMS jobs are done every day globally) there would be a dramatic increase in accidents.
There aren't. Wire strikes during EMS are extremely rare...extremely rare!
Possibly running into barely double digits each year....GLOBALLY.
Why is that then? Luck has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's always down to the correct CRM/HF atmosphere in the cockpit.
During approaches (I'm wording carefully here) there is absolutely NO excuse for a wire strike, NONE. Pilot error. Crew either not up to speed with SOP's/standards/distraction, etc;
99.9% of all approaches are clean. 0.1 are flawed and that is down to duff pilots/crew. Simples.