The US Air Force has achieved its second-best overall flight-safety year on record in fiscal year 1996, with a "Class A" accident rate of 1.26 accidents per 100,000 flying hours. Class A includes fatal accidents or "mishaps" involving destruction or damage worth more than $1 million. Rates for fighter and fighter/attack aircraft hit an all-time record low for their categories, however.
USAF safety chief Brig Gen Orin Godsey ascribes the improvement at least in part to the introduction of cockpit resource management to training.
Source: Flight International
