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You seem to be on a Robbo targetted mission at the moment.
Those lists look dramatic.
Quite a lot of wires, a lot of 'rushed landings' folled by rollover, generally no injuries, tail in hedge, dynamic rollover etc
I thought this one was rather good:
“Landed in a tree”. Pilot was able to climb out of the helicopter and down from the tree to phone for help.
Mostly mishandling events, this is why 'handling' is the biggest life saver.
I think if you put this population of pilots in the EC135 you'd see quite alot of 'landing in a tree' events too.
"A total of six were on board – four adults and two children under 10 – and the helicopter was operating short joyride flights fro..."
Very few mechanical induced events, because these machines are exceptionally reliable. They are also operated with shockingly poor maintenance often. "the crashed helicopter had been rebuild following a fatal crash 2 years before" (Brazil)
Even events like reportedly 'losing power' are often suspect, as in the case of: "the pilot said he opted to turn the helicopter to the right and downslope, while trying to
override the engine governor to attain additional engine power. " oh dear
Mostly handling incompetence/misfortune, if training organisations were not busy ticking irrelevant boxes they might focus on how to fly. It's the blind leading the blind.
Saying that even the 'World's Best' helicopter training can go adrift:
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload..._Report_OS.pdf
If the amount of training they did were scaled up to the size of the Robbo operation then we'd have a long list of silly misfortunes in Gazelles too.
How many EC135's (or A109s) are there in UK compared to Robbos?
What are the relative fatal accident rates, (for equivalent trained crews)?
Just sayin'