Poor maintenance led to RAF aircraft accidents, TV report says

Serious shortages of personnel and spare parts resulting from shrinking defense budgets were largely responsible for the 16 major accidents suffered by British military aircraft in 1996, according to a British television report. The accident rate was the worst in five years, and twice as bad as that...

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