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Police: 2 Marines skip out on Waffle House bill, damage a helicopter
It wasn't exactly an all-star special for these Marines.
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Aviation in Crisis
Mishap milestone: Navy and Marine Corps had zero fatal aviation mishaps in FY 2020
It's the first nonfatal year since the service started tracking such mishaps in 1922.
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Military aviation mishaps and deaths are declining for the first time in years
The military is bringing down aviation mishap numbers, but dangerous and deadly crashes still plague the services.
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Fighter accidents rose in 2019, despite overall decline in mishap rates
The Air Force saw a fleetwide decline in the most serious manned aircraft mishaps in fiscal 2019, but the number of serious mishaps increased for fighter and attack aircraft.
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Military Times Reports: The Pete Buttigieg interview | Military Times Reports
In a 2020 primary surprise, the nation’s first post-9/11 military veteran with a credible shot at the nomination for the presidency is a gay 37-year-old mayor.
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Military Times Crash Database, Fiscal 2011 through 2018
Military Times has obtained updated data to report on every major aviation accident that has occurred during the past year.
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Propeller cracking fears led Air Force to ground 60 C-130Hs, replace pre-1971 blades
The Air Force found blades manufactured using a different process more than 48 years ago might be more susceptible to corrosion, which could lead to dangerous cracks.
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DoD is rethinking what defines a major aviation accident
The Pentagon is considering revisions to the dollar amounts and damage levels that qualify an aircraft accident as a major mishap to better reflect the expense of repairing advanced jets.
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Report: Navy jet swaps endangered readiness, pilot retention
Joint strike fighter delays, unplanned-for service-life extensions and other headaches have cut the time pilots spend in the cockpit and reduced their desire to stay in uniform, according to an Inspector General report.
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Blue Angels pilot makes emergency landing
The incident happened Tuesday in California.
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Flight data recorders likely found from 2 Marine Corps aircraft that crashed off Japan coast
Rescue teams had 30 days from the Dec. 6 crash to find the data recorders.
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Two surviving Army pilots are suing Sikorsky over a helicopter crash that killed their crew chief
Two Army pilots and the wife of their fallen crew chief are suing Sikorsky over a deadly 2017 helicopter crash that could have been caused by a manufacturing defect.
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Marine Corps CH-53 damaged during ground taxi Class A mishap
It’s the second major aviation mishap for the Corps this month.
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Poor maintenance contributed to a devastating C-130 crash. Here’s how the Air Force will make sure it doesn’t happen again.
How did a corroded KC-130T blade escape the Air Force's quality control apparatus?
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Investigation blames Air Force and Navy for systemic failures in fatal Marine Corps C-130 crash that killed 16
A corroded propeller was sent through an Air Force maintenance depot but was not repaired.
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Report on fatal WC-130 crash reveals troubling maintenance, morale, discipline lapses in Puerto Rico Air Guard wing
A faulty engine, serious maintenance lapses that failed to repair it, and a series of air crew mistakes before and during takeoff led to the horrific WC-130H crash May 2 that killed nine Puerto Rico Air National Guardsmen.
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Retired general, former Army secretary named to panel studying military aviation crisis
The independent commission was established after Military Times' in-depth investigation into the sharp rise in aviation accidents.
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