17 fatalities in civil ops, ...
Please be fair....those were the direct result of a Captain's decision to continue flight in direct conflict with the ECL and the Co-Pilot's remainder of that.
Had they ditched as required by the ECL...those Fatalities might have occurred during the Dtiching due to the Sea State, Water Temp, and Winds but the primary cause was the bad decision to continue flight and a slow descent to the surface. prior to the really serious failure.
AH's name is not being smeared.....it is their Management Attitude and patent refusal to aggressively pursue a real diagnosis of the causes of the failures and then coming up with a fix that prevents another occurrence of the same faults.