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Military Aircraft Safety: Serious Accidents Remain at Historically Low Levels

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 23, 1998
Report No. NSIAD-98-95BR
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Summary:

Overall, in fiscal years 1996 and 1997, the military achieved historically low levels of serious aircraft mishaps. The number of Class A flight mishaps across the Defense Department in fiscal year 1997 totaled 68--an all-time low. Although the number of fatalities rose from 85 in 1995 to 116 in 1996 because of several high-casualty accidents, they declined in 1997 to 76, DOD's second lowest ever. New lows on the number of destroyed aircraft (54) and the rate of destroyed aircraft per 100,000 flight hours (1.2) were also reached in fiscal year 1997. Moreover, the value of aircraft lost fell to $1.1 billion--its lowest level in the 1990s.

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