What Effect Does Budget Cuts Have On Aircraft Accident Rates
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What Effect Does Budget Cuts Have On Aircraft Accident Rates
The Military Times newspaper compiled data regarding 7500 US Military Aircraft Incident/Accidents beginning in 2011.
Their Data shows a marked increase in the number of Accidents beginning the severe budget cuts imposed by Congress as part of the Sequestration Agreement.
A Forty Percent increase was noted.
Does money or the lack of money play a significant role in the accident rate of a Military Flight Operation?
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/y...tion-database/
Their Data shows a marked increase in the number of Accidents beginning the severe budget cuts imposed by Congress as part of the Sequestration Agreement.
A Forty Percent increase was noted.
Does money or the lack of money play a significant role in the accident rate of a Military Flight Operation?
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/y...tion-database/
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Less money....less training...less currency....less experienced pilots.....fewer parts....more deferred faults......damn sure increases the accident rate. Key word....RATE.
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Depends on what it’s a rate of: If per flight hour, yes, likely it will increase as rightly stated. But that’s arguably not the metric which counts for CNN etc. The rate of accidents per year will fall and that’s probably more visible to the general public.
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The Graphic showed hours down and numbers of accidents up....which also is also a higher rate per hour.