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U.S. Team Seeks To Reduce Fatal Accidents by 20 Percent

The United States Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) is renewing its focus on reducing the fatal helicopter accident rate. Last month the USHST announced its “20 by 2020” campaign, with the new goal of reducing the civil U.S. fatal helicopter accident rate by 20 percent by the end of 2019. The industry-government partnership is targeting a reduction to 0.61 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours, which is 20 percent less than the average since 2009. For a baseline comparison, the USHST is using a fatal accident rate of 0.76. This is the average fatal accident rate for the prior five years that have final and reliable data (2009-10 and 2012-14) derived from the FAA General Aviation Survey. For 2016 through 2019, the USHST will measure fatal accident rate progress and focus on actions that will help keep the rate moving consistently downward. The team will use these fatal accident maximum rates per 100,000 hour “mile markers” as guides to measure progress: 0.73 in 2016, 0.69 in 2017, 0.65 in 2018 and 0.61 in 2019.