Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
bbofh: would you care to elaborate? The Osprey is a mature weapons system. Your link takes us to a thread from 2007. A Blackhawk crashed in Huntsville early this year. Is your brilliant assessment of "remains an issue" to apply to that as well?
For Asturias56
The journo in your linked article referred to the V-22 as a helicopter.
Not your fault, but it's frustrating to see the ignorance on display.
For our three lost bretheren:
Semper Fidelis, and
vaya con dios, Marines.
Safety is rated in accidents per flight hour, only published data I can find is the USAF. In USAF service the V-22 has 6 class A incidents every 100 000 flight hours. Compared to H-60's at 3.36. Looking at most of the fixed wings they were around 3 with the one exception the C-130 which was 0.8. So no its not a death trap but its also not a great compared to other aircraft