{"id":48231,"date":"2025-11-19T13:51:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/11\/19\/recent-data-shows-significant-spike-in-us-military-aircraft-accidents\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:46:42","slug":"recent-data-shows-significant-spike-in-us-military-aircraft-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/air-warfare\/2025\/11\/19\/recent-data-shows-significant-spike-in-us-military-aircraft-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent data shows significant spike in US military aircraft accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The number of major accidents involving military aircraft spiked in 2024, internal Pentagon figures show, and a series of high-profile aviation<\/a> mishaps with deaths and the loss of aircraft in 2025 suggest the disturbing trend may be continuing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the military, the rate of severe accidents per 100,000 flight hours rose 55% in the 2024 budget year compared with four years earlier. The Marine Corps<\/a> saw the highest increase, nearly tripling its rate over the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data, which was released by the Defense Department to Congress and provided exclusively to The Associated Press, tracks Class A mishaps \u2014 the most serious accidents, which result in death or a permanent full disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An aviation expert noted that broader worsening trends are unlikely the result of a single factor but rather a reflection of multiple smaller issues that accumulate to create an unsafe culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These issues include increased operational demands, riskier aircraft like the V-22 Osprey<\/a> and interruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a significant curtailing of flying time across the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the rising number of serious accidents has some in Congress looking for answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data was released to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, in January after her office asked for the figures after a spate of deadly mishaps involving the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Warren\u2019s office provided the data to the AP, which reviewed it independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statistics cover the full budget years 2020-2023 and then the first 10 months of the 2024 budget year, through July 31. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In those 10 months of last year, 25 service members and Defense Department civilian employees were killed and 14 aircraft were destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese accident rates are incredibly troubling and demand action,\u201d Warren told the AP in an emailed statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said legislative changes to make accident reports more accessible \u201dare desperately needed so Congress can understand the root causes of these accidents to save service member lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several military aircraft have been especially prone to crashing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Osprey, which flies like a plane but converts to land like a helicopter, has been among the most dangerous aircraft, as the AP has reported extensively<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the new Defense Department data shows the Apache helicopter had about 4.5 times the rate of the most serious Class A accidents during the 2024 budget year compared with four years earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The C-130 transport plane, a workhorse of the military, nearly doubled its rate over the same period, even as it reported safer years in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pentagon, when asked about these trends, did not immediately respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey and V-22 Ospreys with the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force fly in formation, Sept. 18, 2025. (Cpl. Jeremiah Barksdale\/Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Navy\u2019s data<\/a> on just its own aviation mishaps shows a marked increase this year. The Naval Safety Command reported eight Class A aviation mishaps in 2024. In 2025, that total has spiked to 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aviation expert and former military pilot John Nance said the ever-growing demands being placed on military pilots are most likely playing a major part in the growing number of mishaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhether we\u2019re talking about the end of Afghanistan, whether we talk about deployments to Djibouti, or the back and forth across Saudi Arabia to get to the Emirates, I think that as the pace (of military operations) ticks up, the mishaps are going to tick up,\u201d Nance said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year has seen a series of accidents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While the data does not continue into 2025, there have been multiple high-profile aviation mishaps this year, including a spate on aircraft carriers at sea and the collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger jet over Washington, D.C., in January, which killed 67 people<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigations found<\/a> that the Black Hawk helicopter\u2019s altimeter gauge was broken, there were issues with the military pilot\u2019s<\/a> night vision goggles, and the Federal Aviation Administration didn\u2019t address warnings about the dangers that helicopters presented in the area around the Washington airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike their civilian counterparts, military aviators face far less predictability and routine when they fly, Nance said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got aircraft commanders … making decisions with the best information they\u2019ve got, but on the spur of the moment and there\u2019s a level of uncertainty and a level of unpredictability that is wildly beyond anything the commercial airlines experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the spring, the Navy\u2019s USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost two F\/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets in the span of a few weeks \u2014 one to a bad landing and another slipped off the deck of the ship and fell into the sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2024, the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg mistakenly shot down an F\/A-18<\/a> from the carrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No aviators were killed in any of these episodes. The Navy has not released the results of investigations into the causes of these mishaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently, four U.S. Army soldiers who were part of an elite team that does nighttime missions died when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed near a military base in Washington state<\/a> while on a training mission in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, in October, a fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes<\/a> of each other, though no one was killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nance didn\u2019t rule out the possibility that this spike in mishaps is the downstream effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, when military pilots had far less flying time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe safety buffer is impacted by a million things,\u201d Nance said. Some things make tiny impacts and others are major. According to him, the pandemic \u201cwas a major impact on the operational capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren\u2019s office is now asking for more detailed figures from the Pentagon on aviation mishaps and over a longer period of time, from 2019 to 2025, according to a request sent to the Pentagon and reviewed by AP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The request includes questions about Class A mishaps but asks for data on the less serious Class B and C mishaps as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren\u2019s office is also asking more questions about how the military trains its aircrews and maintenance staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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