Originally Posted by
Cyclic Hotline
Out of 60 K-Max's produced, 16 have crashed and been written off - that's 27% of the fleet! While admittedly this is a small production run that subsequently skews the numbers, I can't actually think of any aviation product of any kind that has suffered an attrition rate as high as this?
Out of interest, I believe 18 of A-12/SR-71 production totalling 46 aircraft were lost - four crew were lost.