För att visa på hur osäkra moderna stridsflygplan är hittade jag en artikel på Lockheed Martins hemsida.. (letade efter nyheter om F/A-22an).
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage...129&ti=0&sc=400QUOTE
The USAF fleet consists of more than 1,200 F-16s assigned to the active-duty Air Force, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command. There were only two F-16s lost in FY 2004. The two aircraft lost were involved in a mid-air collision.
Class A flight mishaps are defined as those involving more than $1 million in damage or loss of life, but may not necessarily result in a destroyed aircraft. There was an F-16 damaged in a landing mishap, yielding a total of two Class A mishaps for FY 2004.
Safety records are defined as rates of mishaps per flying hour. The USAF F-16 fleet flew approximately 350,000 hours during FY 2004. The USAF F-16 loss and Class A rates were both at an all-time low of 0.57 per 100,000 flight hours. The previous best fiscal year was in 2002, with rates per 100,000 flight hours of 1.37 for losses and 1.90 for Class A mishaps.
The USAF F-16’s cumulative safety record over more than seven million flight hours is 3.86 losses and 3.98 Class A mishaps per 100,000 flight hours. The cumulative mishap rate for USAF’s newest F-16s, the Block 50/52 versions, is 2.3 losses/mishaps per 100,000 flight hours in 740,000 flight hours of operations.
Den olycka som trots allt skedde under 2004 visar också på en av de två farligaste och mest frekventa olyckorna som sker med stridsflygplan, nämligen att man kolliderar under övning samt CFIT dvs kontrollerad flygning in i terräng, olycka där flygföraren tappar omvärldsuppfattningen och flyger i backen.
De två olyckstyperna dominerar även flygvapnets olycksstatistik i modern tid (sen 70-80-talet ialla fall, har ingen statistik, men det går nog att få fram).
Artikeln ovan nämner att F-16 vunnit en utmärkelse för årets säkraste enmotoriga flerrolls jaktflygplan i USAF. Har USAF fler enmotoriga flerrollsjaktflygplan?

Hittade lite mer info om olyckan här (stycke fetstilat av mig):
http://www.f-22raptor.com/QUOTE
Two military commissions will investigate monday´s crash of an F/A-22 Raptor at Nellis Air Force Base.
Nellis AFB - Nev. — December 23, 2004 Aleady, the job is proving to be difficult.
An Air Force general says he expects the F/A-22 Raptor to join combat operations by the end of next year despite this week´s crash of one of the next-generation stealth fighter jets.
Major General Stephen Goldfein says the program not be halted.
Goldfein is the Air Warfare Center commander at Nellis, where the approximately 133 (M) million dollar plane crashed and burned on a runway shortly after takeoff Monday.
The pilot suffered scrapes but was otherwise unharmed.
The general says it should take about 30 days for a safety board to conclude its investigation of the Nellis crash and 90 days for an accident board to finish its probe.
All Raptor flights nationwide will remain suspended until Air Force officials believe it´s safe for them to fly again.
The Air Force has been testing Raptors for about two years. Monday´s crash was only the second serious Raptor mishap in seven-thousand hours of flying, and the other incident did not result in a crash.
The jet that crashed was one of eight at Nellis and had accumulated about 150 hours in the air.
Nellis AFB officials are not releasing the name of the Raptor pilot saying he needs time to recover from minor injuries sustained in the crash.
mvh
Erik G