Sign In
Search
Navy/USMC

Navy Aviation Forces Hold Safety Pause After Series Of Crashes

Rich Abott By
SHARE:
Navy Aviation Forces Hold Safety Pause After Series Of Crashes
F/A-18E and F Super Hornets assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 8, stack up in preparation for launch from the flight deck of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) during flight operations in the Atlantic Ocean on March 21, 2020 while conducting carrier qualifications. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Naval Air Forces Command (NAVAIR) directed all non-deployed Navy aviation units on Monday to conduct a “safety pause” after a series of recent Navy and Marine Corps aircraft crashes. NAVAIR said the pause is being done “in order to review risk-management practices and conduct training on threat and error-management processes.” The service said it must ensure safety as one of its top priorities to maintain force readiness. Deployed units are not necessarily immediately participating but were directed to conduct…

Subscriber-only content. Please log in below.

Not a subscriber or registered user yet?

Please contact us at clientservices@accessintel.com or call us at 888-707-5814 (Monday – Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. and Friday 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET.), to start a free trial, get pricing information, order a reprint, or post an article link on your website.

Recommended

Navy/USMC

Mine Countermeasure Systems Need To Be Self-Contained, Have Onboard Data Analysis: Officials Say

Navy/USMC

DoD Nominates New Third Fleet Commander And Joint Staff Director

Navy/USMC

MUSV At-Sea Testing Limited To Seven Selectees But Could Re-Open If Navy Wants USVs With Different Requirements

Navy/USMC

Navy Chooses Seven Companies For First MUSV At-Sea Demos

Trending

Proposed Elimination of SDA And Space RCO Faces Opposition
SASC Approves $1.14 Trillion FY ‘27 NDAA With ‘Right to Repair’ Reform, Stock Buyback Restriction
USAF Looks To Start Building Family Of Affordable Mass Missiles In September
SpaceX Gets Nearly $4.2 Billion Nod From Space Force For Initial SB-AMTI
Defense Watch: FORGE, Cloud Contract, Another Super Hornet Lost, AFC/TRADOC Merger Name, TOC-L Protest

Congress Updates

Advanced / Transformational Technology

Pentagon May Make ‘Tradeoffs’ For Low-Cost Autonomous Tech Without Reconciliation Funds, CTO Says

The Pentagon’s chief technology officer has said the department may need to make “tradeoffs” on certain capability priorities if Congress doesn’t pass a reconciliation with $350 billion in requested defense […]

Congress

SASC’s FY ‘27 NDAA Sticks With Army’s Plan For Legacy Aviation Procurement Cuts

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) version of the next defense policy sticks to the Army’s proposed plan to cut procurement of its legacy aviation fleet, and does not authorize […]

Congress

SASC Approves $1.14 Trillion FY ‘27 NDAA With ‘Right to Repair’ Reform, Stock Buyback Restriction

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) has approved its $1.14 trillion version of the next defense policy bill, adopting “right to repair” reform to provide the military services’ greater ability […]

Congress

House Appropriators Unveil $1.07 Trillion FY ‘27 Defense Bill, Restore Funds For E-7, Army Aviation

House appropriators on Wednesday released their $1.07 trillion fiscal year 2027 defense spending bill, with the legislation reversing Army aviation cuts, restoring funding for the Air Force’s E-7 Wedgetail program […]

The Force Multipliers

Force Multipliers

Michael DiOrio – Dataminr

Force Multipliers

Arne Brinck – Dark Wolf Solutions

Force Multipliers

Jags Kandasamy – Latent AI

Force Multipliers

Force Multipliers – Krista McKendree

Job Feed

Post a Job // Post a Resume