Naval Flight Mishaps On The Rise

Monday, November 08, 2021 at 07:47 PM ET

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An F/A-18F Super Hornet flies over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

Key Takeaways:

Naval Class-A flight mishaps have more than doubled in the past two years, with 16 total Class-A aviation mishaps reported in FY2021 compared to 8 in FY2019.
A Class-A mishap is defined by at least $2.5 million in property damage, aircraft destruction, or a fatality/permanent total disability.
Despite the numerical increase, the Naval Safety Center states the overall mishap rate remains stable compared to the 10-year average, partly due to the rising cost of aircraft components reclassifying more incidents as Class-A.

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Naval flight mishaps are on the rise, more than double what they were two years ago, according to the Naval Safety Center (NSC).

So far this year, there have been a dozen Class-A flight mishaps of crewed aircraft, up from five reported in fiscal 2019, according to the most recent batch of NSC data. In that same time period, Class-A aviation mishaps have risen to 16 in FY2021, up from eight in fiscal 2019.