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Wednesday’s fatal collision between an Airlines American flight and a military helicopter abroad Washington, DCIt followed the highest army flight mishap rate in more than a decade.
Army Aviation He saw 17 class a, accidents who killed someone or caused damage worth more than $ 2.5 million during 2024 financial year.
This followed nine flight flight incidents and a plane in 2023 and four flight and four setbacks on the ground by 2022.
“FY24 will be a year since Army aviation looks behind in the hope of never repeating,” said an army unpleasant report, published just before the fatal collision near the airport National of Reagan who killed 67 people.
Third soldier within Black Hawk Helicopter involved in identified DC size collision
Captain Rebecca M. Lobach, Durham, North Carolina, was the third pilot identified in the fall of Black Hawk last week. (Getty/Us Army)
Fiscal Year 2024 saw most of class A mishap per 100,000 hours of flight since 2007. Nine soldiers and a civilian died in flight setbacks, while a contractor died in a land accident. , according to the report.
The 1.9 class A mishap per 100,000 were almost four times the rate of 2022, 0.5 per 100,000.
In an average year, the army’s aviation mishap kill six crew.
There were 66 class class boxes, which means that the aviation incidents in which more than $ 60,000 were made of damage or staff were injured enough to lose their work.
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Helicopter Black Hawk UH-60 involved in Washington’s area DC is not the most prone plane in the accident; It was only involved in one of the main incidents of 2024, while nine incidents involved AH-64 apaches.
Last week’s fall was the first class in Mishap for 2025 exercise.
Helicopter Black Hawk UH-60 involved in Washington’s area DC is not the most prone plane in the army accident. (US-FAP. Adan Cezarez)
Marina had 11 class A mishap in exercise 2024 and the Navy He had six. Five Marines died in a Super Stallion CH-53e accident last February. The air force, which has more aviators than any other branch, had 20 class A mishaps in the 2024 exercise.
The army attributed the rise to incidents to an “ineffective security culture”.
His revision of aviation called for more recording and review of the flight images with the superiors after it was found that the average flight experience dropped 300 hours per aviator since 2013. While the crew experience It was not cited in all incidents, the army considered “a danger that must be considered.”
“Although it is understandable to have concerns about the monitoring of the” Big Brother “, the main purpose of flight data analysis is to improve security, not punishing or examining individual pilots,” said the Combat Combat Center from the army to the report.
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This image shows the wreck of a plane that collided with a black hawk on the Potomac river. (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital)
After more than a dozen aviators died in the first half of 2023, the army stopped all over aviation in April 2023, temporarily based on all regular missions and training for. Evaluate security problems.
However, accidents continued. In April 2024, the army executed a “security” plant with training on new protocols and security procedures. Following the stand, the Class A mishap rate for the rest of the exercise 2024 dropped to 0.86 per 100,000 hours of flight.
Last week Army Secretary, candidate for Daniel Discoll He promised senators that he would emphasize a “security culture” after the fatal accident, which he said “seems to be avoidable.”
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“There are adequate times to risk -there are inappropriate moments to risk,” he said. “I don’t know the details around this, but after doing it, if you confirms and work with this committee to find out the facts, I think we may have to look at where it is a right time to take on the risk of training And it may not be near an airport like Reagan. “
The Black Hawk, who was carrying three army riders, was running an “annual competency training flight” when he collided with a Wichita Commercial Regional Airplane Kansas, as he was on the descent to land in Reagan, according to The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
The army did not respond immediately to a comment request.
