Another Robinson crash

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Originally Posted by Paul Cantrell

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...relim&IType=FA Bell 407

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA Bell 407

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA 206L1

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA Bell 222

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA 206L1

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA 214

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA Bell 222

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA Bell 212

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA Bell 212

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA Bell 407

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=GA Bell 206L1

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA Bell UH-1B

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA Bell 206B

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...Final&IType=FA Bell 212

Looking through all these accidents there is almost none initiated by simple handling errors or turbulence or completely unexplicable.
Almost in all cases there were either gross maintenance/ overlooked fatigue issues or other external factors (large Bird) preceding the Mast Bumping event. There is almost no straight forward low-g accident in there. Yes there were pilots in Vietnam who managed to do that with the fast and nimble Cobra but with the slower/bulkier Huey even in combat flight they were pretty rare (Tail shot off not counted in this category).

All statistics aside that is the really discomforting thing about quite a number of the fatal Robinson accidents (I don't care about those aircraft dinged in training -that is to be expected) that they happened with totally serviceable and often rather new aircraft with often experienced pilots in best flying conditions.