However, if the service experiences no further mishaps through September it would be consistent with the last two fiscal years, she said. Priscilla Kirsh, a spokesperson for the Naval Safety Command, said that nine months of data currently show a higher accident rate, which is calculated using the number of accident incidents and total flight hours. When five San Diego sailors were killed in an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter crash off the coast last August, it took more than eight months to learn that a bad damper hose in the aircraft’s rotor was to blame.ĭata from the Naval Safety Command, which tracks Navy and Marine Corps accidents, shows that “class A mishaps” - ones that occur in-flight and cause loss of life, permanent total disability or more than $2.5 million in damage - are up so far this fiscal year.
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