Army aviation leaders: If we don’t modernize, we risk more crashes, declining readiness
By: Jen Judson 2 days ago
WASHINGTON — Just this year, a UH-60 Black Hawk crashed on a Maryland golf course with one crewman pronounced dead; an entire crew went missing after another Black Hawk crashed into the ocean during a night training mission in Hawaii; and another crashed off the coast of Yemen roughly one week later.
Despite the headlines, the tough fiscal environment, atrophied maintenance skills and unexecuted flight hours, thus far, “have not manifested themselves in aviation mishaps,” Maj. Gen. William Gayler, commander of the Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, said during a Nov. 9 House Armed Services readiness subcommittee hearing.
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