Not entirely happy with your intro there but maybe it's just the times we live in.

We all have an ambition for everyone to be safe in the air and it's right to want the H225 to never have another accident. However, I think that in this age of easy mass communications and easy access to news we can lose sight of the historical context. Sometimes it seems like what happened before the internet never happened. In terms of helicopter fatalities, large rotorcraft that have been in widespread service for 15 years and done hundreds of thousands of flying hours but only had a couple of dozen fatalities are an outstanding new feature of the helicopter market. So that would be the Airbus H225 and the Sikorsky S-92. Let's not forget the thousands of people who died in accidents in other large rotorcraft down the years (some models of which are still around and still having fatal accidents at an unacceptable rate). Think too about the many people who are alive today who might have been dead if Airbus had not produced the H225 and Sikorsky had not produced the S-92.

Onwards and upwards.

No moral high ground here but interesting you think I dumped any bias because I really couldn’t give a t8##! I just don’t like pilots/engineers/crewman or families of dead people suffering because some idiot has to massage their ego instead of getting a decent hobby, is all.

Don't fret things Hompy, SM has deep well-aged biases in favour of AS/ECF/Airbus products. He would much rather you find fault with pilots, as that fits nicely with his pre-conceived ideas of risk :ugh:

Well, well, Shelly is back. We've missed the three years of no comedy you regularly provided in your various analysis of safety issues. Take no notice of the prat Hompy.

Any news about preliminary report?

Check the title. This is a rumour forum. It sounds to me like it’s not a suitable forum for you to read. Never mind, there are plenty of others.

Anyone know if a preliminary report has been issued yet? Any official statements? It's been very quiet since the accident and no information to find on the web. Surely there must be causes the South Korean Accident Investigation Board has ruled out that should be shared with the public.

The silence is remarkable - not a preliminary report after close to 4 months must indicate they have found nothing so far - and that even with recovered CVR and FDR.

The silence indeed is remarkable. If we consider a pilots error the clean cut off of the tailboom does not fit into this picture. The fact that Airbus seems totally relaxed shows that most probably there is no problem caused by the design of the h/c, nor by material fatigue. The (only) explanation remaining which makes sense is a connection between the accident and the maintenance which was done some weeks before the crash. Where a missing good torque of the bolts of the airframe - tailboom junction could perfectly explain the clean cut of the tailboom, too. Taking all this together with a far eastern mentality where an individual never does something wrong you'll maybe find the reason for the silence.

# Assuming Airbus isn’t a morally bankrupt organization.
* History would suggest: Airbus would be very vocal about this explanation. They were in a previous EC225 fatal crash. Even the fact that it wasn’t a maintenance issue didn’t stop them.

South East Asia region looks like the last market for non military brand new H225 h/c. Being Airbus, would you bite the last civil hand which feeds you?

Korea National 119 Rescue is receiving a factory new S-92 for firefighting and search & rescue missions. Is this a sign of distrust in the H225 following the accident in 2019? Still haven't seen an accident report. Anyone else?

A while ago I was in contact with someone from www.aviation-safety.net , they have the H225 HL9619 as occurance 230316 in their data base. He said that it is not unusual that an accident investigation takes some two years in South Corea. Corean Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board (ARAIB, www.araib.molit.go.kr ) is in charge. As the h/c recently had maintenance, the tailboom was separated razor sharp from frame 9900 and the TR was not turning anymore when it hit the sea. I have my own theory about what happened.