why have you chosen to consider only technical failures in your analysis? A
safety record is a safety record and only a small minority of accidents these
days result directly and solely from technical reasons.
I don't want to speak for GreenKnight, but I'm guessing he's only considered technical failures because those are the only types of failures that reflect the safety of a particular machine. If a Lynx is shot down, or the pilot flies it into wires/rolls on landing/etc, then it can hardly be attributed to an inherent fault with the airframe (which was the implication of iRaven's OP about the Lynx's safety record).