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Old 3rd Mar 2017, 10:47
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Those numbers do not look very robust. Fatalities are something of the 'luck of the draw' in that the number of occupied seats varies considerably - both up to a maximum of 21 (inc aircrew).

More importantly airframe safety is generally measured in fleet hours. In 60 seconds googling I find the S-92 fleet has approximately 1,000,000hrs (not sure about the military / civil split) and the last quoted 225 fleet hours were around 350,000 which tends to turn those 'statistics' on their heads.

It is however very noticeable that none of the official assessments actually split accident rates into types - a fundamental failing given the topic of this discussion!

FWIW the earlier 332 type have circa 4.3 million hrs.
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