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Old 19th Jan 2017, 01:39
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jimf671
 
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FADEC1, you had me going along until you mentioned the 61.

After 12 yrs service, the numbers tell us that the 92 and 225 represent a new level of rotorcraft safety. One fatal accident each in 12 yrs of intensive civil ops (and one each military/paramilitary) puts them in a bracket apart from their predecessors. One fatal accident is one too many but widely used older types have killed large numbers of people and it has happened without it being put up in lights on the internet.

Hopefully, good work by makers, regulators and operators will maintain and enhance new levels of safety. Let's hope nobody ever dies in new types like the 175 and 189.

If there is an answer to the pressure recently applied to S-92 operations then it is more likely to be a structured re-introduction of the 225 and not a return to older types with dodgy performance.
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