Originally Posted by
Minnie Burner
% of Sea Vixen & Gnat higher than 104 & LTG?
Taken from the excellent seavixen.org website:
55 Major Accidents involving loss of airframe. Out of these, 30 were fatal and of these 21 were fatal to both operating aircrew. In other words 51 Royal Navy Aircrew were lost in the 12 years of Sea Vixen Operations. 145 Sea Vixens were built. The loss rate was 37.93%. The fatality rate within those losses was 54.54%.
If I recall correctly we lost 8 out of the 16 Scimitars on 803 Squadron on Ark Royal in about 18 months around 1965-66.