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Key Safety Risk Areas
for GA Rotorcraft
The key risk areas for GA rotorcraft have been taken from the top Occurrence Categories as provided in Figure
35. The key risk areas are based on their ranking in terms overall number of accidents and serious incidents
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Loss of control – in flight (LOC‑I)
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Abnormal Runway Contact/Loss of Control - Ground (ARC/LOC-G)
: ARC is often a pre‑cursor to LOC‑G
occurrences, therefore for the purpose of considering safety issues they have been combined.
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System Component Failure (SCF)
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Low Altitude Operations (LALT)
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Collision during Take-off and Landing
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Controlled Flight into Terrain
16 For a complete list of CICTT occurrence categories, refer to Appendix 1.