As More Aviation Accidents Pile Up, Key Safety Recommendations Remain Undone
Pentagon officials say they’re still working on the December 2020 suggestions of a congressional commission.
TARA COPP | JUNE 10, 2022 05:11 PM ET
PENTAGON AIR FORCE NAVY MARINE CORPS
As more bases mourn aircrews lost in a new spate of crashes, there’s no one among the Pentagon’s top leaders assigned to help lower-level safety officials prevent the next accident.
That gap was a key finding in a 2020 report by the National Commission on Military Aviation Safety, which found that since 2013, aviation accidents had killed 224 pilots and crew, destroyed 186 aircraft, and cost the military $11.6 billion.
In the last 10 days, five accidents have killed another six aircrew and injured several more. They include the June 9 crash of an MV-22B Osprey that killed all five aboard, the June 3 crash of an F/A-18E in which the pilot died; the June 6 crash of an Army AH-64 Apache helicopter, which injured both aircrew; the June 9 crash of an MH-60S Seahawk, which injured one person; and a June 2 incident in which an Air National Guard F-16 skidded off a runway and damaged its nose cone.
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