Originally Posted by
Self loading bear
I am very well aware of the differences in operating and maintenance between civil offshore and military operations.
But if the military type would loose a head, I think it would be eagerly included in the Safety statistics by the criticasters of the mother type.
(Not that I am a fan of the type).
Are all losses of the military type been clearified?
I recall the loss of a Spanish one above sea off the Canary Islands?
SLB
Nope. Almost never.
Unless it crashed, caused life or injury, or the assets itself is new or damn expensive.
"little incident" like inflight flame out, hydraulic leaking, undercarriage collapsed, almost but did not shake off the rotor head due to loose blade pin, window panel falling off, hot start without cranking, APU on when cowling slided back, TR cowling inflight dangling, slice the wheels half while landing with brakes on, glycol injection due to"pressing the wrong button", OEI take-off... unless it is officially reported to OEM, OEM cannot use it in their statistic, at least not the ones published.