Originally Posted by
llamaman
I'm not convinced the accident rate stats back-up the rose-tinted spectacle view Crab. ... ...
The numbers back you up llamaman.
In recent years we have spent a lot of time on pprune discussing accidents with new-ish large rotorcraft types (92 & 225) whose forty-odd total fatalities across 12+ years of service are a small fraction of the fatalities in some older types. Since the 1960s when this size of rotorcraft began to emerge, probably between five and ten thousand people have died in them. Many of those didn't make the papers and only a small fraction have been discussed in depth on the internet.