Yep, agree with this. You have a chance, if something goes wrong with a plane, but helicopter is nearly always fatal.
That's just not true. At all.
This was a mechanical failure of the tail rotor which makes it very very difficult to control. But if there is no mechanical locking or breaking a helicopter can land with no power. Only light planes can do that. Jets drop with no forward momentum. Helicopters don't. Physics works.
When you learn how to fly them, even rc ones, you have to learn how to land with no power as part of your licence. It's called autorotation. Use the rushing air for lift and right before landing you pull up and it smoothly lands. It's very basic physics.
Obviously when helicopters do go they can look far more dramatic, which probably gives the impression they're unsavable.
Fair enough, I wasn't aware of that.