United -States Helicopter Safety Team-Monthly Report (Nov 2018)

Monthly Report

As of: 11 December 2018

The USHST is a regional partner to the International Helicopter Safety Team.

USHST GOAL: Reduce the fatal U.S. helicopter accident rate by 20% by 2020. (0.61 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours)

OUTREACH

Since 01 January 2018, the Personal / Private industry experienced:

• 7 fatal accidents

• 22 fatalities

Over a ten year period (2009 – 2018) the Pers/Pvt industry:

• experienced fatal accident rate of 5.0 per 100K flight Hours

• accounted for ≈3% of the flight hours in the U.S.

To view the entire USHST Monthly Report, click the link below:

http://ushst.org/Reports

For any questions regarding this notice please contact Scott Tyrrell of the Rotorcraft Standardization Branch, AIR-612, at 817-222-5121 or email at scott.tyrrell@faa.gov