C53204 - if that becomes the case, it will out of ignorance. Yes the Super Puma family has borne the brunt of recent accidents, but also it is the type that has flown by far the most hours out of Aberdeen. If you remove the SP, without addressing any underlying causes of these accidents such as cultural issues, all you will do is move the problem onto another fleet and repeat the process all over again. That would be rather daft!
As I posted earlier, none of the recent 5 events are fundamentally the fault of the aircraft, all were the fault of the operating and maintenance culture (latest one aside for the time being of course).
If the industry is driven by ill informed mass hysteria that would be very unfortunate, though not totally unexpected. Lets try not to encourage them.
Last edited by HeliComparator; 26th Aug 2013 at 15:01.