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I use to work for Eurocopter USA in Grand Prairie, TX. The company has had only two crashes since 1979. Most crashes occurr after it is sold to the customer, because most of the customer can't afford to maintain their fleet properly. When one crashes and the investigative team went to the site, to see if Eurocopter might be found at fault, would find that the part that malfunction was a part that we sent several notices for the customer to bring the helicopter in for the parts to be recertified for airworthiness or replaced. Either that or the crashes was due to flying into a mountain or bad weather. I got to go up in one of the new EC120 that Eurocopter markets for the police departments. It was kind of scary since the body of the helicopter was made of fiberglass and shook like an earthquake. Its pretty scary when the middle console that houses the controls and instruments shakes violently, too. :P