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Article: FY02 engine related mishap summary: a good news story!
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- Flying Safety
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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(Information in this article came from Accident Investigation Board and/or Part I of Safety Investigation Board Reports. None of this material was derived from privileged communications. Ed.)
The past year was particularly good for those of us in the engine community. The USAF matched the lowest number of engine-related destroyed aircraft (three) for any other year over the past three decades. Figure 1 shows how this year matches up with the past. You can see how the graph staggers up and down, especially over the past five years. With engines accounting for only 12.0% of the destroyed aircraft this year, we've found ourselves in one of the better years, so we ...