Originally Posted by
Paul Cantrell
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.