All non-deployed items had been ordered to instantly evaluate their ‘risk-management practices’
The US army has ordered a brief halt of some non-critical missions with the intention to conduct a danger and error evaluate, after a Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey, in addition to Navy MH-60S Seahawk and F/A-18E Tremendous Hornet fighter jet all crashed throughout the scope of a single week in southern California.
“Because of current crashes involving US Navy and Marine Corps plane, Commander, Naval Air Forces has directed all non-deployed Navy aviation items to conduct a security pause on June 13 with the intention to evaluate risk-management practices and conduct coaching on menace and error-management processes,” Naval Air Forces Public Affairs introduced in an announcement on Saturday.
Because of current crashes involving U.S. Navy and Marine Corps plane, CNAF has directed all non-deployed Navy aviation items to conduct a security pause on Jun 13 with the intention to evaluate risk-management practices and conduct coaching on menace and error-management processes.
— flynavy (@flynavy) June 12, 2022
These items which can be at the moment deployed had been ordered to conduct an identical security pause “on the earliest potential alternative,” the army added, emphasizing that guaranteeing the “security of our individuals stays certainly one of our high priorities.”
The necessary 24-hour operational pause comes within the wake of a sequence of incidents and lethal crashes because the US Navy and the Marines have been conducting workout routines on the Imperial County vary, within the desert on the border between California and Arizona, for the previous a number of weeks.
On June 9, a US Navy Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk helicopter crashed close to Naval Air Area El Centro, California. All 4 crew onboard survived the crash, and just one suffered “non-life-threatening accidents.”
On June 8, a US Marine MV-22B Osprey crashed close to Glamis, California, killing all 5 Marines on board. The lean-rotor aircraft has a controversial security historical past, with one other 4 Marines killed in March when their Osprey went down in northern Norway throughout NATO drills. Earlier Osprey crashes with dying or accidents included incidents in Australia and Syria in 2017, in Japan in 2016 and in Hawaii in 2015.
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On June 3, a US Navy fighter jet pilot was killed when his F/A-18E Tremendous Hornet crashed within the Mojave Desert of Southern California. The Tremendous Hornet, constructed by Boeing, is called the Navy’s premier strike fighter and has a high velocity of practically 1,200 miles per hour. The $70 million jet is featured within the new ‘High Gun: Maverick’ film starring Tom Cruise.
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