Amarillo is about 60 miles from me and and I see these things flying all the time. No crashes yet in the local area. Even in demonstrations at the local Bell facility during an open house they brought that thing in hot and fast, flared like a big old HH53 Pavelow helicopter and landed. It was impressive in the hands of the pilot who clearly had thousands of hours already in the thing. That is what makes me think this about 10% mechanical and 90% Pile-it with regards to it's safety envelope and recent rash of crashes.
But hey I'm just sitting here on the couch making these spectulations and don't know for sure. Just my SWAG on the matter......
Stay Safe DD !
Four crashes, one which was a direct result of pilot error and another which had pilot error as a contributing factor, in 13 years isn't a rash. Now if you want to talk about the ~80+ crashes of the Blackhawk in the last twenty years then you might be able to make a "rash" argument.