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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 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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To up fighter readiness levels, Pentagon looks to retire older planes and fix supply chains
Fleets are going to have to get smaller to get healthier, it appears.
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Has safety improved a year after Navy and Marine aviation crisis?
Top Navy, Marine Corps air bosses dish on how they're trying to fix the 2017 aviation crisis.
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Air Force T-6 crashes in Texas, crew suffers ‘minor injuries’
The T-6 fleet has been plagued with hypoxia problems.
Skilled worker, parts shortages still hurting Hornet and Growler maintenance, government watchdog finds
The Navy, which is chipping away at a readiness crisis among its fighters and electronic attack aircraft, is being hampered by a shortage of skilled workers, depot capacity and spare parts, a government watchdog found.
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GAO: Air Force isn’t meeting availability goals for crucial fixed-wing aircraft
A new report from the Government Accountability Office is sounding the alarm about the Air Force’s ability to fully field several key legacy fixed-wing aircraft in its fleet.
Watchdog report sounds alarm over military aviation readiness
The report found most types of planes surveyed failed to meet availability goals.
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Air Force: High ops tempos, lack of aircraft, inexperienced maintainers among mishap risks
A series of one-day safety stand-downs across all flying and maintenance wings has given the Air Force several clues on how to correct a string of troubling — and sometimes fatal — aviation crashes and other mishaps, the service said Monday.
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Air Force B-1B bombers to resume flights following ejection seat complaint
Air Force Global Strike Command will resume B-1B Lancer flights this week, following a safety stand-down that began June 7.
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The military’s crash investigators faced staff, budget cuts as aviation accidents climbed
Congress continues to try to get to the bottom of the increase in aviation crashes.
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Flights to resume at Kadena Air Base after F-15 crash
Following a stand-down at Kadena Air Base, F-15 training flights are scheduled to restart Wednesday.
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B-1 makes emergency landing in Hawaii just days before Air Force orders stand-down
The June incident occurred days before the Air Force ordered all Lancers grounded.
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Air Force pilot in serious condition after F-15 crash; training sorties halted
Kadena Air Base in Japan has halted local F-15 training operations after one of its Eagle fighters crashed into the ocean south of Okinawa.
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