THE U.S. DEFENSE DEPT
THE U.S. DEFENSE DEPT. logged one of its safest flying years in Fiscal 1997 despite a batch of late-year accidents. Fatalities declined to 76 from 116, the second-best record since the Pentagon began keeping statistics in 1958. The major aircraft accident rate was 1.5 per 100,000 flying hours...
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