FOX News: US military plane crashes on the rise as aging fleet continues breaking down
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard continues to search for Army soldiers who went missing after their Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed in the waters off Hawaii Tuesday night.
It was the latest in a series of high-profile accidents involving military aircrafts – raising questions about their safety. Experts say the recent crashes underscore the pressing need to update the military’s aging aircraft fleet, which is increasingly putting members of the military at risk.
Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said he’s concerned about U.S. military’s readiness to fight.
“We've got a lot of ground to make up for the good of the nation and for the good of the men and women who are risking their lives by flying,” he told Fox News recently.
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WNU Editor: Here are some sobering statistics ....
.... A Fox News analysis found in the past year there have been 14 non-combat aviation crashes involving U.S. military aircrafts, a 40 percent spike from this point a year ago. There have been at least 112 Americans killed in military aviation crashes since January 2012.
5 comments:
Age, tempo, & neglect (funding)
I wish they would have shown how many crashes there were in prior years, not just 2016 and 2017. 4 more crashes over last year at this time really doesn't seem like much, even though it's 40%. Whenever news sources only display prior year, I get the feeling that maybe if you go back a few years the data really doesn't support the conclusion. I can't imagine that they'd only look into prior year for a story like this.
Sabotage at the highest level.
aaa,
Here you go. It is not a comprehensive military chart, but it is multiyear.
www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Documents/statistics/StatsPrevYrs/NavyTables.pdf
It is not what you want, but it is getting near the ballpark and it is interesting.
I don't know the definition of a mishap, but it could be like a close call where there was no harm & no foul, but they still want to count it, investigate it and learn from it. Like perhaps a particularly bad landing, the damages landing gear.
Think of mishap in the same way manufacturing no longer call anything a defect but a nonconformance.
Aggravations because there is no aggregation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_(2000%E2%80%9309)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft
I am not sure why we have the AP, Reuters, etc. I guess more stats/graphs would mean less ink.
www.quora.com/Have-passenger-planes-crashing-and-going-missing-always-been-this-frequent
www.1001crash.com/index-page-statistique-lg-2.html
www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/273y10/graph_aircraft_casualties_vs_number_of_passengers/
See below link for mishap definitions. You're right, it isn't quite what I was looking for but still is interesting. Thanks
Mishap:
http://www.public.navy.mil/NAVSAFECEN/Pages/statistics/mishap_def.aspx
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