12 March 2019
Fatal Helicopter Accident Rate Climbing
The fatal helicopter accident rate has progressively increased over the last three years—from 0.54 per 100,000 flight hours in 2016 to 0.6 in 2017 to 0.72 in 2018—according to data released by U.S. Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) on Monday at Heli-Expo 2019. Year to date, the rate is 0.4 per 100,000 flight hours. To achieve the safety organization's goal of reducing the overall helicopter fatal accident rate by 20 percent by 2020, the cumulative average rate would need to measure 0.61 per 100,000 hours.
