HELOS, AIR TAXIS FLY SAFER

The U.S. helicopter accident rate in 1997 dropped to 7.84 per 100,000 flight hours, the lowest in the past seven years. The 166 rotorcraft accidents logged last year were the lowest of any year in the 1991-97 period except for 1995, when there were 162, according to a Flight Safety Foundation...

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