Originally Posted by
Lima Juliet
“
We plough the fields and scatter the Jaguars from the land”
Cat 4/5 Accident Rates per 10,000 flying hours
Jag 1.02/10,000fg hrs (>1973)
GR7/9 0.97/10,000fg hrs (>1988)
GR1/4 0.59/10,000fg hrs (>1980)
F3 0.28/10,000fg hrs (>1985)
Quite shocking and goodness knows what that accident rate would have been in the hands of inexperienced students. People often think that the Harrier was the worst in recent times, but the dear old Jag had a truly shocking loss rate in training accidents linked to its handling characteristics at high alpha and lack of SEP.
Here is a list of those losses: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/type/JAGR
The 10 year IFS report into the Jaguars from 1984 intro mentions 38 frame loses and 20 fatalities in the intro. Only 10 of those accidents could not be determined if pilot error or another cause was the issue. Other 28 had defined reasons such as bird strikes, mid airs tech fails, pilot error and of course only aircraft to be shot down by a RAF guided AAM.