GAO raps Pentagon, services for not properly tracking aviation mishap data

Air Force Times: As the military faces an alarming uptick in plane crashes and other aviation-related mishaps, some fatal, the Government Accountability Office took the Army, Navy and Air Force to task for not tracking aviation mishap data in the same way.

For example, GAO said in a report Wednesday to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the Army uses its own processes to define types of aviation mishaps. And when mishap data isn’t standardized across services, they don’t speak a “common language,” GAO said.

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