Posted on 04/21/2009 5:34:14 PM PDT by nuconvert
April 21, 2009: For the second time in a month, a U.S. Air Force F-22 suffered a "Class A" accident (one causing over a million dollars of loss). This one was the result of an F-22 colliding with a Canadian CF-18 while taxiing at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. This is the fifth F-22 Class A accident in the last six years. The last one was a crash, in which the pilot was killed. The only other crash did not result in the loss of the pilot. It’s easier to have a Class A accident for an F-22, as the construction cost of the aircraft is over $140 million. The damage to the F-22 in the most recent accident was described as minor, but costing just over a million dollars to fix. The damage to the CF-18 will cost much less to repair.
So far, the air force has received 136 F-22s, and the aircraft entered service two years ago. With the recent crash, the F-22 an accident rate is about 7 per 100,000 hours. F-15s and F-16s have an accident rate of 3-4 per 100,000 flight hours. India, using mostly Russian aircraft, has an accident rate of 6-7 per 100,000 hours flown (compared to 4-5 for all NATO air forces.) The Indian rate had been over ten for many years, and it is still that high, and often higher, with other nations (including Russia and China), that use Russian aircraft designs.
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Big deal, if you hit an airplane on the taxi way you cause damage! It costs more to fix composite wings than aluminum wings. There is a reason that {most} radar can’t see the F-22.
We got drunk at the O Club several times and we dragged a bunch of war stories outta him.
Heckuva guy! He was a pilot's pilot!
Taxiway? Collision? Man that’s going to hurt a career.
Did they say who was at fault?You just don’t get into an accident on a taxiway unless you violate the traffic control policies.
THe CATCO is toast, for sure....
When did this happen? I live near Tyndall and have not heard this.
It is a big deal. There may only, at best, be 186. Now scratch 3.
I think it may have happened last week, but just getting out in the news today.
Nope, we can fix it right up. But after 2012 it might cost a little more!
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