Marine Harrier crash

Looks like the pilot almost made it back too....:frown:

I've heard the "Jump Jet" has a higher mishap rate than other fighters..:kilroy:
 
I saw a lot of AV-8's go down during my time at Cherry Point. One year alone we had 23 crash and lost 16 pilots (not all harrier related)........very sad year!
 
Panther_99FS said:
Looks like the pilot almost made it back too....:frown:

I've heard the "Jump Jet" has a higher mishap rate than other fighters..:kilroy:
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It dose, but thinking about how old it is *1960* and give it is one of the first VTOL out there. Hopefully the F-35 won't be so prown to crashes.
 
I was under the impression that it earned that reputation during the early service years when the Marine Corps was flying the "A" model, which required a lot of extra care to fly. The "B" model, which hit the fleet about the same time I did, was supposed to have greatly improved flight controls to ease the pilot's burden. I think they're on to the "B+" now, but those airframes have got to be approaching 20 years old by now.
 
Hi all,
Not sure what to say here.The USMC seems to have a problem with this a/c that is not seen in other forces using it.
As it is a British design and flown over here for much longer we do not have anything near the accident rate you have.
i cannot remeber hearing of a single Harrier related accident in the UK in the last 10 years.
This begs the question why are you having these accidents.

Buddha13
 
The father of a close friend of mine was CO of the first east-coast MAU to deploy with Harriers, back in the early '80s. As I understood it, the British and other nationalities flying the Harrier only assign pilots with a lot of experience. The Marine Corps will assign junior pilots to Harrier squadrons in the same manner they assign them to other airframes. The lack of experience will contribute to the higher accident rate.
 
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