Zalt,
So what if there would have been no Sikorskys flying for some time? VX wasn't just an accident, it was a fatal accident due to a catastrophic failure that happened so quickly that there was no chance of survival, for a reason that was unknown for a while.
And I don't give a hoot how you call the oil company's action, they did not fly the 76 for a while. Pure semantics.
Are we really happy to operate an A/C if a similar one has simply dropped out of the sky without a warning, and nobody can as yet tell us why it happened?
At least in the SAR case, the crew survived to tell the tale, and a thorough investigation of the remaining S61s could take place. Therefore, the S61 crews could be reasonably confident that the machines they were flying would not go up in flames that day.