The problem is that both the rotary and fixed-wing world are wrestling with the issues that events like these throw up. It is slightly interesting to look at Air Afiqiyah in TIP, Asiana at SFO, UPS at BHM and CHC at SUM; they all have common threads tied up in both procedural and Human Factor issues. This is not only a North Sea problem, it is an air transport issue. There has to be a recognition that we are balancing risk against productivity - never two good mutual stablemates. How we manage that risk through material improvements is important as well as taking a long hard look at how we train pilots. It should not need an accident to promote improvements, in theory this is what all these wonderful SMS are supposed to do, however effecting an expensive improvement is always an uphill battle unless the parties who sign the contracts have hard evidence as the cost/benefit. Sadly this evidence is not usually publishable in the public domain.