For a long time in the past, India has been known as the country with the most frequent aviation accidents in the world. This is also because India’s weapons and equipment are extremely messy. At the same time, a large number of combat aircraft used by the Indian Air Force are They are assembled by India itself. During the process of assembling these aircraft in India, it is very likely that the safety redundancy required by the design will not be achieved. At the same time, Indian ground crews will also fail to follow the instructions during maintenance of these aircraft. The manual does not operate according to the regulations, and now the intensive crashes of the US Navy and the US Air Force have even exceeded that of India. On June 8, a V22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashed in the United States, and in June On the 9th, an SH-60 Seahawk helicopter of the U.S. Navy crashed. After a series of crashes of fighter jets in the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Navy also issued a grounding order on June 13. The grounding order targeted a large number of aircraft. Military aircraft that do not perform military operations, but eight days after the SH-60 Seahawk helicopter crashed, the U.S. Navy once again had a Class A accident.
According to a news report by domestic media on July 3, the U.S. Navy has confirmed that on June 17, an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter transferred 5 missiles during a "vertical replenishment" process. It fell into the sea. It can be seen that the U.S. Navy only disclosed the news to the outside world half a month after the accident. "Vertical replenishment" is currently the most commonly used replenishment method by the U.S. Navy. This "vertical replenishment" It can be completed without a comprehensive supply ship, but the efficiency of "vertical supply" is relatively low, because "vertical supply" requires helicopters to fly back and forth between two surface ships , which are usually used between aircraft carrier As well as the supply between the amphibious assault ship , some time ago, the US Navy's two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the USS Reagan and the USS Lincoln, had already conducted a "vertical supply" in the mission area of the US Navy's Seventh Fleet. ", and at that time the "vertical supply" materials were locked on the AIM-120 air-to-air missile.
During this "vertical replenishment" process, the 21st Helicopter Maritime Combat Squadron of the U.S. Navy used an MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter to carry out the replenishment mission. Citing U.S. Naval Aviation spokesman Blair , the MH-60S was The Knighthawk helicopter was carrying two containers filled with missiles to the LHD-2 Essex amphibious assault ship. However, due to a failure of the lifting device, all two boxes of missiles fell into the southern coast of California, and this area The sea area also belongs to the Pacific Ocean.
After the MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter dropped two boxes of missiles totaling five RIM-116 Searam ship-to-air missiles into the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Navy also defined it as a Class A accident. Normally, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force classify accident levels. , will first assess the casualties. If there are no casualties, but the loss exceeds 2.5 million US dollars, it will also be defined as a Class A accident. Therefore, 8 days after the crash, the U.S. Navy had a Class A accident with no casualties. ACCIDENT.
It has long been normal for U.S. Navy helicopters to continuously "throw objects" in the air, but this kind of thing does not happen much in the United States. Some time ago, the CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter deployed at the Futenma Base of the U.S. Army in Japan, During a flight in the airspace around Ryukyu, a container weighing several tons fell into the sea. After falling into the sea, the United States did not even notify Japan. Instead, it was only after Japanese fishermen discovered the relevant wreckage that the U.S. military It was confirmed that this incident also came from a heavy transport helicopter of the US military. Text/Iris
