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Army saw spike in deadly aviation accidents in year before DC plane crash disaster

The fatal clash between the American Airlines flight on Wednesday and the military helicopter outside Washington DC has been the best flight disaster in the Army in more than 10 years.

Army Airlines saw 17 classes disasters, killing someone in FY2024 or causing more than $ 2.5 million damage. 15 of them were on flight, and two were terrestrial aircraft disasters.

It was followed by nine flights and one aircraft on the ground incident in 2023 and four aircraft accidents in 2022.

“FY24 will be a year to look back on the expectation that the Army Airlines will never be repeated,” said the miserable Army report that was released shortly before a fatal collision near Reagan National Airport, which killed 67 people. The book was described.

The third soldier in the Black Hawk Helicopter involved in the DC collision has been identified

Captain Rebecca M. Robach in Dallam, North Carolina was the third pilot specified last week's Blackhawk Crush. (Getty/American Army)

In fiscal 2024, the most class A accidents were seen per 100,000 flight hours since 2007. Nine soldiers and a civilian died in a flying accident, but one contractor died in an aircraft ground accident.

The 1.9 -class A disaster per 100,000 was almost four times the ratio in 2022, 0.5 per 100,000.

In an average year, the Army Air accident kills six crew members.

There were 66 class AC My Shaap. In other words, it means that an aerial accident that caused more than $ 60,000 or a sufficient person was injured to miss labor.

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The UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter, which is involved in the Washington DC area collision, is not the most likely aircraft of the unit. Only one of the major incidents in 2024 was involved, but these nine cases were related to the AH-64 apache.

Last week's crash was a first -class accident in FY2025.

55 victims of Washington, the aerial collision of DCs withdrawn from the Potomac River as the recovery work continues

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The UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter, which is involved in the Washington DC area crash drop, is not the most likely aircraft of the Army. (U.S. Army CAP. Adan Seseses)

The Navy had 11 class A aviation accidents in FY2024, and the Marine Corps had six. Five marines died in the CH-53E Super Stallion Crash last February. The Air Force, which has more flights than any other branch, had 20 class A disasters in 2024.

The Army believed that the rapid increase in the incident was due to “invalid safety culture.”

In the aviation review, after the average flight experience had decreased by 300 hours periller since 2013, a more number of recording and reviews of flight images with bosses were required. It will be considered. “

“I understand that you are concerned about monitoring” Big Brother “, but the main goal of flight data analysis is not to punish or scrutinize individual pilots, but to improve safety.” And the Army Battle Preparatory Center states in the report.

The miserable video from the military base shows a new angle of the aerial collision catastrophe.

Search efforts in DC after clashing between American Airlines Jet and US Black Hawk Helicopter

This image shows the debris of an airplane that collided with Blackhawk over the Potmax River. (Fox News Digital League Rean)

After more than 12 flightors died in the first half of FY2023, the Army took off the entire aviation in April 2023, and temporarily trained all regular missions and training to evaluate safety issues. I contacted the ground.

However, the accident continued. In April 2024, the Army performed a stand -up with a new safety protocol and a procedure training. After the stand -up, the remaining class A accident rate in 2024 fell to 0.86 per 100,000 flight hours.

Last week, the Secretary of the Army, Daniel Doriskol, promised a Senator who emphasized the “safety culture” after the fatal crash was “prevented.”

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“There are some time to take risks, and there are times when it's unsuitable to take risks,” he said. “I don't know the details of this, but after doing so, I see the appropriate time to take the risk of training to cooperate with this committee. I think it may be near the airport.

According to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegoses, Blackhawk, who carries three Army pilots, collides with a commercial area jet in Wichita, Kansas, and collides with a commercial area jet in Wichita, Kansas. I was doing “stool”.

The Army did not immediately respond to the comments.

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