Robbie Engineer
Maybe you and I live in a different Australia?
these blades have been in service for many years now and in Australia which has an extensive fleet of r22,r44 & r66 aircraft there has been little to report of failure let alone fatalities relating to these or the previous -5 & -2 blades
Here are three after a very short search:
aair200302820_001 VH OHA 20 Jun 2003 2 fatalities blade failure
aair200701625_001 VH HPI 15 Mar 2007 skin separation landed safely
ASIB 200300316, VH-AIC 12 Feb 2003 skin separation resulting in crash 1 injured
As I have stated elsewhere I know of one overseas case of probable blade failure due to adhesive bond degradation and those blades were inspected twice by tap test and three visual inspections within 80 hours of the crash.
Please don't insult our intelligence with the "nothing to see here...Move on" attitude.
Regards
Blakmax