Recent emphasis on military flying safety is paying off, particularly for the Air Force, which just completed its safest flying year in every category that matters. In Fiscal 2006, which ended on Sept. 30, USAF posted its lowest rate of Class A flight mishaps ever, had the fewest aircraft destroyed in accidents, and suffered only one fatality in a flight incident. Collectively, 2006 was "the best year since we've been an Air Force," declared Maj. Gen. Stanley Gorenc, chief of Air Force safety and commander of the Air Force Safety Center at Kirtland AFB, N.M.
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