Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into shutting the door on this terrible tragedy," Thompson says. Defense Secretary William Perry today defended the military's handling of the attack, noting that "many officers' careers were very adversely affected by this." But Thompson says today's decision, combined with a report last month detailing a skyrocketing mishap rate in the service, may trigger a backlash in Congress. "Family members of the dead are already screaming about the lack of accountability in today's Air Force," he says. "What congressman is going to turn down an Air Force widow when the military hasn't done...
...Diehl report says that "the U.S.A.F. major-mishap rate has increased by over 30% while the Navy and Army rates have decreased by 40% and 50%" over the past three years, not counting the five accidents that have killed 16 since April 17, including one last Friday. And there are potential civilian consequences. Last fall, Diehl reports, a pair of B-52s "narrowly missed colliding" with an airliner, an incident apparently "hushed up." Diehl writes, "This business, which has always been dangerous, has become unnecessarily deadly...
During the Gulf War buildup, an F-15 fighter feigned an attack on an F-111 warplane "without warning them," Diehl says. "The inexperienced mishap pilot, apparently thinking they were under actual attack, crashed while taking evasive action." The crash was listed as a "combat loss...
...barley field. The last voice heard via radio was a woman's. "The [investigation] board decided they would report that one pilot seat was occupied by a spouse, but they would conceal the fact that the second pilot was also not at the controls during this mishap...
...assess and address risk on the basis of such images. But that's because during human evolution, before television, such images did reflect risk-local risk. Further galvanizing us is the fact that bombings are intentional; aspiring bombers are out there somewhere, to be stopped. Death by traffic mishap, in contrast, has no plan, no perpetrator. It seems the inexorable working of fate or chance, and we accept each year's statistics, if we notice them at all, with resignation...