Posted on 03/05/2022 11:09:14 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
This article is prefaced with a few facts. The U.S. Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) reported 122 helicopter accidents, with 51 fatalities, in 2019. There were 92 accidents and 35 fatalities in the first year of COVID dystopia (2020) when aircraft were grounded for months. In fact there was a 107-day period in 2020 with no fatal helicopter accidents, which is unusual compared to other years. Further, small, private aircraft crash relatively-frequently, even before the COVID-19/vaccine era. But the difference since 2021 – more people are dying in said crashes.
USHST data measure fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours every month. It’s rare for those monthly numbers to ever exceed ONE fatal crash per 100,000 hours. Anything under one is generally accepted as a good number. But three months in 2021 exceeded that baseline number, with a peak of 2.08 fatal crashes per 100,000 flight hours in December 2021.
The average American doesn’t pay attention to helicopter crashes or the statistic thereof. In the last five years, the only real spike in searches for helicopter crashes on Google trends was in January 2020 after former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and his daughter died in a helicopter crash. Searches are now trending upwards in February 2022 as well.
A website called The Points Guy crunched statistics from various government agencies to create a “Death Index” for modes of travel. Commercial airlines are the safest and the baseline mode of travel, with an index of 1. Only two people have died in U.S. commercial airplane accidents since 2010. Helicopters have a death index of 63. Private planes are 271.7. For what it’s worth, all of them are safer than driving or riding in a car, with a 453.6 death index.
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On YouTube check the Probable Cause channel. Mostly pilot error. Example: takeoffs with parking break set, flying in icing conditions, showing off resulting in a fatal stall, fraudulent ratings. The Tarzan actor who killed 9 in a lake in Tennessee last year was a fraud.
Climate change causes airplanes and helicopters to crash.
Diversity and Inclusion?
If your wings are traveling faster than you, you are already in a crash.
Rotary wing aircraft are very maintenance intensive. Many more moving parts than a fixed wing, (hence, more can go wrong).
Without a break down into general aviation sub-sets where does one begin to even guess. Some very large differences between categories.
See:
https://aerocorner.com/blog/general-aviation/#examples-of-general-aviation
There’s a huge hospital/medical campus in my immediate area so medical helicopters are seen and heard all too frequently along with Emergency sirens.
A few years back there was a medflight helicopter circling a major multi-car accident a hal mile or so from me. The chopper sounded like a junker car missing badly, unlike any I had seen or flown in right seat or chartered for aerial surveys, so bad that I called local cops to see if they’d had a distress call...anwer, “nope it’s just X, we get callz all the time but the SOB keeps flying” Always kept an eye out for news about that crate going down.
This subject was brought up a few days ago, and I’m going to post what I did then. I look at Fight24 often. I also live in an area close to several military pilot training bases. I see these guys putting in tons of flight time. At Ft. Rucker Aviation Training Center you can see 30 or 40 Army helicopters in the air every weekday, all day. NAS Pensacola will have several T-38 Texans flying all day, pretty much every day. All of those pilots are vaccinated, but they are not falling out of the sky.
BOL: A few years back there was a medflight helicopter circling a major multi-car accident a half mile or so from me. The chopper sounded like a junker car missing badly, unlike any I had seen or flown in right seat or chartered for aerial surveys, so bad that I called local cops to see if they’d had a distress call...anwer, “nope it’s just X, we get callz all the time but the SOB keeps flying” Always kept an eye out for news about that crate going down.”
In our part of Northern California, we have all types of helicopters flying around. The PG&E are the nosiest.
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