In his closing remarks on last year's article, my predecessor passed on kudos for the FY04 mishap statistics and urged everyone to do even better this year. I'm pleased to report that someone must have been paying attention, since the Eagle had another respectable year when looking at the Class A Flight mishap rate. There were three F-15 Class A Flight mishaps in FY05, resulting in a Class A Flight mishap rate of 1.57 per 100,000 hours. While we just squeaked ahead of last year's rate of 1.58, we did well when you compare this year's performance to the ten-year average Class A Flight mishap rate for the F-15 which is 2.09. Although we lost one valuable combat asset, we were again fortunate this year not to lose any aviators. However, we also had one Class A Aviation Ground Operations mishap in which, sadly, we lost a maintainer when he slipped off an engine ramp while performing maintenance work on a canopy. It was interesting to note that all the Class A mishaps involved F-15Cs. Of the four FY05 Class A mishaps, one was due to an aircraft departing controlled flight, one was due to a midair collision, one was due to an augmentor duct liberation, and one was due to a maintainer slipping off an engine ramp. Let's take a closer look at the Class A mishaps from last year.
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