Luck plays a big part in these things. In the early days Management aviation(Bond) had two full main gearbox failures on the 58T's. One just as the aircraft flared on to a helideck and the second just after the aircraft coasted in, resulting in an auto to a field in north Lincs. One minute earlier on each occasion would have resulted in a ditching.
I believe that with the exception of one (two?) helideck accidents Bond never had a fatality up to the point when they were bought out by HS. I believe there was only one ditching, 105 G-AZOM which ironically was a Bristow aircraft on lease.
This was in a period when BA, BIH and Bristow all had serious accidents.
However in the light of the comments on training a quote from I don't know where.
" The more I practice the luckier I get" (Golf related)
Last edited by ericferret; 9th Sep 2013 at 11:37.