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...have to lie on maintenance records to make the numbers look good," a V-22 mechanic said in an anonymous letter to the Pentagon. What is amazing is how bad the numbers are--even after the deception. A recent independent review, apparently incorporating the misleading data, said the V-22s were fully prepared for their missions just 20% of the time, well short of the corps' 75% requirement. An Osprey crash last April in Arizona, killing 19 Marines, highlights the plane's maintenance woes. The Osprey had spent only 135 hours in the air during the three months the Marines...
...have to lie on maintenance records to make the numbers look good," a V-22 mechanic said in an anonymous letter to the Pentagon. What is amazing is how bad the numbers are - even after the deception. A recent independent review, apparently incorporating the misleading data, said the V-22s were fully prepared for their missions just 20 percent of the time, well short of the corps' 75 percent requirement. An Osprey crash last April in Arizona, killing 19 Marines, highlights the plane's maintenance woes. The Osprey had spent only 135 hours in the air during the three months...
While the Marines say the fudged records did not make the V-22s unsafe to fly - two have crashed in the past year, killing 23 Marines - the aircraft has been plagued with problems. The V-22 that crashed last April in Arizona, killing all 19 Marines aboard, makes that all too clear: That craft had spent only 135 hours in the air since the Marines took delivery of it three months earlier. Yet it had required 600 repairs while the Marines had it - one fix for every 15 minutes it was flying...
...lies, one could be forgiven for assuming that they helped the corps' only V-22 squadron achieve the Marine requirement that the V-22 be ready to fly 75 percent of the time. Far from it. A recent outside review, apparently incorporating the misleading data, said the V-22s were full prepared for their missions only 20 percent of the time, a number far below that of the Vietnam-era CH-46 chopper it is supposed to replace...
Following the release of that report by the Pentagon's top tester last November, the Marines boasted that an increasing number of V-22s were able to fly. "The Marine Corps wants the airplane to be low maintenance and high reliability, and we're driving the program office to make that happen," Brig. Gen. James F. Amos, a top Marine pilot, said in the wake of the critical report's release. Now those numbers, too, are suspect - although Amos's comment shows that the pressure Leberman must have felt to boost the V-22's readiness rate was not imaginary...