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By: 26th February 2019 at 06:59 Permalink
-USAF Safety Center website lists accident statistics for USAF aircraft.
By: 26th February 2019 at 08:36 Permalink
-USAF Safety Center website lists accident statistics for USAF aircraft.
Yes thank you.
https://www.safety.af.mil/Divisions/Aviation-Safety-Division/Aviation-Statistics/
By: 26th February 2019 at 08:38 Permalink
-Gripen displays one fatal accident; https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/dblist.php?AcType=SB39
By: 26th February 2019 at 12:16 Permalink
-There has been only one F-35 loss out of the 350 or so built in the last 12 years with no deaths. Not a bad record all considered, bearing in mind the conditions some F-35s fly in. I can think of some other aircraft which have a much worse record.
By: 26th February 2019 at 14:45 Permalink
-I am surprised that the Eurofighter Typhoon has not been mentioned, I have never seen the Typhoon in Air Forces Monthly's Attrition pages in all the years that it has been flying.
By: 26th February 2019 at 14:57 Permalink - Edited 26th February 2019 at 14:59
-I am surprised that the Eurofighter Typhoon has not been mentioned, I have never seen the Typhoon in Air Forces Monthly's Attrition pages in all the years that it has been flying.
Probably has not been mentioned as there have been around 4 fatal accidents with the Typhoon including Saudi, Italian, Spanish (2), and additional write offs by various air forces flying them. Wiki has a good summary of the accidents.
By: 26th February 2019 at 15:33 Permalink - Edited 26th February 2019 at 15:34
-4 deaths in 400,000 flying hours is pretty good. The RAF have had none in 150,000 flying hours. All but 1 death was down to the pilot.
By: 26th February 2019 at 16:23 Permalink
-Yes thank you.
https://www.safety.af.mil/Divisions/Aviation-Safety-Division/Aviation-Statistics/
Great data. Even though the F-35 safety record so far is one thing you can say has been a rousing success, I think there may be an error in the hours flown? 16 million hours in FY17, and 22 million hours in FY18, seem a bit high...
By: 26th February 2019 at 16:58 Permalink - Edited 26th February 2019 at 17:07
-Somebody fudged a decimal point ;) :stupid:
As of Feb 1st, 2019 it was at 177,000 flight hours.
By: 27th February 2019 at 05:56 Permalink
-Any estimate of the hours logged with Gripens ?
By: 14th February 2020 at 06:41 Permalink
-Is Gripen the safest then ?
By: 14th February 2020 at 12:23 Permalink
-Gripen has had 9 hull loss incidents as of 2017. Only 1 death but 9 aircraft losses. So on Class A mishaps, it definitely isn't the safest.
By: 14th February 2020 at 23:52 Permalink
-Should be the F-35. Only 1 crash so far I believe, with a Japanese F-35 and it was a fatal crash.
Gripen has a lot more crashes overall, 9 as per the link below. The most recent being the fatal Thai AF Gripen crash in 2017.
Accidents and incidents involving Gripen
By: 15th February 2020 at 11:14 Permalink
-Also in South Carolina a F-35A went down...and two others burned on a tarmac.
By: 17th February 2020 at 19:16 Permalink
-Ah, thanks for pointing that out. So, 2 crashes and 3 known fire incidents. At least one of those fire accidents was a Class A incident, with the airplane repairs costing more than $2 million. Not an airframe loss.
3 incidents (Gripen has had several as well) but none of which led to total airframe loss.
With over 400 delivered and over 200,000 flight hours as of June 2019, the F-35 fleet has a superb safety record overall. The fleet has only grown since then and more flight hours have been added. I would believe it is the safest fighter out there, despite being single engine.
Having said that, all the modern 4th gen fighters are quite safe. Typhoon, Rafale, Gripen, Su-30, etc.
Sometimes a crash is not because the fighter is unsafe but rather because of bird hits. G-LOC is another issue that is being tackled in some of the newest variants of jets.
By: 18th February 2020 at 07:15 Permalink - Edited 18th February 2020 at 07:19
-Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS) systems improves safety during peacetime training.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/f-35-incorporate-automatic-ground-colli…
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By: topspeed - 26th February 2019 at 06:26
I mean least fatalities per flying hour ?
Any records of this ?