More Helicopter Safety

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Here's a new article that addresses some of our previously discussed concerns

over helicopter safety. Finally, they are bringing the inadequacy of the NTSB to

the front.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/09/15/361878/ihst-reinforces-strategy-\

for-improving-helicopter-safety-starting-with.html

IHST reinforces strategy for improving helicopter safety, starting with training

By Learmount

" During the last seven years' painstaking study of helicopter accident reports

by the relatively newly-formed International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST), it

has become clear that one of the reasons for the rotary wing's consistently poor

safety performance globally is that accident investigators have not taken the

sector seriously. "