In article , Fred J. McCall
writes
Either you folks are operating some fairly dangerous aircraft or else
you have a training problem. Scaled back to 10,000 operational hour
rates and assuming Class A equates with 'loss of aircraft' (which
isn't quite true - rates would be lower under 'loss of aircraft'
criteria), various US types in our service would have the rates below:

AV-8B - 1.2
F/A-18 - 0.3
F-16 - 0.35
F-15 - 0.5

Just out of interest how would the stats look if you went from
operational hours to launch/recovery cycles?

Given that the Harriers usually have much shorter sorties time wise
(from memory averaging less than an hour in GWI?) and the others often
fly much longer sorties with multiple refuellings. Since most accidents
happen during launch/recovery, the longer the sortie, the lower your
accident rate becomes statistically per operational hour.

--
John