My wife has an uncle who rode one down into the ocean for real. Nobody injured. His saying was “above 5000 feet the aircraft belongs to the Navy, below 5000 feet the aircraft belongs to the family”.
I have a co-worker that is Navy retired, he said he has been in 5 rotor wing crashes, and one fixed wing crash.
He would take crashing in a rotor wing any day over a fixed wing, because it happens slower.
