Why do helicopters crash so much more often than other aircraft?

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Why do helicopters crash so much more often than other aircraft?

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Well they don’t crash very often. But as with most aviation incidents, especially fatal ones, the incidents are given a tremendous amount of media coverage. Car accidents are tremendously common, involving roughly 1 million crashes per year just in America, with about 30,000 deaths, but because of how common they are we barely hear about them. But an airliner crash is primetime news, often for days or week

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