Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holland's superiors put him in charge of evaluating all B-52 pilots at the base. And while 13 commanders allowed him to keep flying, only one -- on assignment for barely a year and never warned by his predecessors of Holland's reputation -- was court-martialed over the crash. (He pleaded guilty last week...
...little-known but horrific disasters detailed in a confidential report by Alan Diehl, the Air Force's former top civilian safety official. The litany -- obtained by TIME last week -- includes 30 cases of mangled military probes and cover-ups by "incompetents, charlatans and sycophants." Diehl charges that Air Force crash probes are routinely sabotaged by officers seeking to please superiors, hide culpability and avoid embarrassment. Accidents like Holland's, says Diehl, "suggest the all too familiar pattern of ignoring dangerous behavior of certain individuals, especially when they are well liked, regarded as good flyers or hold high rank." His report...
During the Gulf War buildup, an F-15 fighter feigned an attack on an F-111 warplane "without warning them," Diehl says. "The inexperienced mishap pilot, apparently thinking they were under actual attack, crashed while taking evasive action." The crash was listed as a "combat loss...
...leading aviation-safety experts: "There's a major, cancerous problem in the Air Force that has to be changed." In the wake of the Gulf War, the Air Force general in charge of safety warned that "we are headed for disaster" because of the corroding integrity of Air Force crash investigations. "The investigative process," Brigadier General Joel Hall declared in a retirement letter to the Air Force's top officer, "has been politicized to the point of dysfunction." Some Air Force officials say Diehl was eased out as senior civilian at the Air Force Safety Agency in Albuquerque, New Mexico...
Jones said that if the investigators foundevidence of criminal activity behind the crash,the investigation would be turned over to thedistrict attorney's office...