This video is a good overview of accident rates in commercial aviation, GA, and helicopters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpGl2_fVr2Y https://www.youtube.com

This video is a good overview of accident rates in commercial aviation, GA, and helicopters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpGl2_fVr2Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpGl2_fVr2Y Something to keep in mind about helicopters is that they're not a lot of them, so one accident makes the hourly accident rates go way up. Another is that helicopters take on dangerous missions. American Airlines isn't flying people to oil rigs or plucking you out of a car accident in a snowstorm. As a result, they enjoy better accident rates.