Navy T-34 down in New Orleans

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Not too many details yet, but local news is reporting a T-34 went down into Lake Ponchartrain on its way to Lakefront Airport (NEW) this evening.

Navy training plane crashes in Lake Pontchartrain
nola.com said:
One person was rescued and another was missing after a Navy T-34 training aircraft crashed into Lake Pontchartrain this evening, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.

Coast Guard officials said an air traffic controller at New Orleans Lakefront Airport lost contact with the plane's two-member crew around 6:40 p.m. as the single-engine trainer was coming in for a landing, Petty Officer Thomas Blue said.
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Here's hoping the other pilot is found as well.
 
My prayers are with them......hasn't been a good (fiscal) year for T-34's and primary folks
 
They happen more often than people think. Take any one day of any NTSB reporting month. It's the nature and risk of aviation. And it sucks.
 
MikeD said:
They happen more often than people think. Take any one day of any NTSB reporting month. It's the nature and risk of aviation. And it sucks.
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I heard somewhere that the US military has about 1 aviation accident/incident a week, any truth to that?
 
I hope the missing aviator is okay. I'm a forme T-34C IP with VT-6 and we lost an IP and student back in March 08 as I recall.
 
PGT said:
I heard somewhere that the US military has about 1 aviation accident/incident a week, any truth to that?
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Well, what are the statistics? We don't lose a plane a week that I know of but if you look at the total number lost, maybe it comes out to one a week on average. I don't know but I'm sure the number is out there.
 
PGT said:
I heard somewhere that the US military has about 1 aviation accident/incident a week, any truth to that?
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Not sure about the military as a whole, but it seems like we have a class A in USN/USMC air every few months, sometimes a little more often. I guess that statement would probably depend on your definition of accident/incident. We certainly don't have anywhere close to 1 class A / week (class A = loss of life, airframe, or $1M or >). If you start including stuff like every time some guy torches a jet on startup, requiring a new engine or major overhaul, or every birdstrike or deer hit in the airport environment, then I guess you could probably start getting close to that figure.
 
///AMG said:
Not sure about the military as a whole, but it seems like we have a class A in USN/USMC air every couple of months, sometimes a little more often. I guess that statement would probably depend on your definition of accident/incident. We certainly don't have anywhere close to 1 class A / week (class A = loss of life, airframe, or $1M or >). If you start including stuff like every time some guy torches a jet on startup, requiring a new engine or major overhaul, or every birdstrike or deer hit in the airport environment, then I guess you could probably start getting close to that figure.
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Don't even get started on mishap rates while on a standard cruise. It's the nature of the biz and how we do biz. Sucks, but true.

We have to balance safety with mission accomplishment. Whereas the civilian side, no mission is truly that important to completely risk alot (with the exception of some).
 
MikeD said:
Don't even get started on mishap rates while on a standard cruise. It's the nature of the biz and how we do biz. Sucks, but true.

We have to balance safety with mission accomplishment. Whereas the civilian side, no mission is truly that important to completely risk alot (with the exception of some).
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Very true. These things are especially saddening to me though.....when a fellow student passes before ever even making it to the big show. I know how hard they worked to get where they are, and how hard they were working just to make it out to the fleet. Pretty unfortunate when you don't ever get that opportunity. (note: not speculating here on the status of this particular crew, just speaking in general terms)
 
I don't know about you guys, but Class As for us got bumped up to $2M in damage

and I also hope they find the missing guy...one of my good buddies just finished up there on Friday
 
ian said:
I don't know about you guys, but Class As for us got bumped up to $2M in damage
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Must be an AF thing, haven't heard any such change for us. Actually, what I have heard was that they had to add the "loss of aircraft" part so that destroying a TH-57 would count (worth less than 1M, unlike the rest of our inventory).
 
Inverted said:
In the Hornet community we had a Class A navy wide about once a month almost on a religious schedule.
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Things must have gotten better, cause we only had about 5 or so (involving VFA) last year, with similar figures the previous year as well
 
Flew into KNEW last night for the football game in the 510, heard about the accident this morning, very sad. The lake was incredibly rough today.
 
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