(Moggycat) wrote:

:"Stephen D. Poe" wrote
:
: "They know this drill all too well because the Harrier is the most
: dangerous airplane flying in the U.S. military today.
:
:Correction on behalf of Peter Rieden and co:
:
:"The Harrier is flown by some of the most dangerous pilots in the U.S.
:military today."

Except it's not true, since over 2/3 of all Harrier Class A accidents
involve mechanical faults in flight rather than pilot error.

(That's over 8/100,000 flight hours, so even if you eliminate ALL
human error from the Harrier numbers, the accident rate is still
almost 3x the *total* accident rate for the F/A-18.)

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live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Dryden