20 IAF Planes Are Crashing Every Year

[RKO]

I'm sorry but who are you to make such arbritarty claims?

In 2012-13 the IAF 0.22 crashes per 10,000 flight hours, amongst the lowest crash rates of any AF anywhere on this planet. The figures for 2013-14 haven't been released yet but there wasn't a significant jump in the span of 12 months so last year's crash rate is also likely to be relatively low.

The issue is that any crashes in India (due to the "flying coffin" saga) receive disproportionate and sensationalist coverage from the Indian media. Also note that the IAF is one of the largest AFs in the world operating vast numbers of fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft (many of them well past their originally dictated life spans) so the number of crashes will always be high and thus certain members from neighbouring countries may like to hype up such incidents without taking this into account.


I'll state again- the crash RATE in the IAF is nowhere near the highest in the world and WILL be coming down further as the older a/c in the fleet are replaced more and more aggressively in the coming years...

can you post the crash rates of pak and China and nations

 

[danger007]

the calculation is wrong. 394/20 =19.7 aircrafts per air , not 39. anyway still it is very high number

actually if you take out migs... then it will be low... IAF operates many missions. .like in Uttarakhand, and now in Vizag etc... those conditions were extremely dangerous. .. still they didn't back down...
IAF sets a world record with Uttarakhand rescue that saved 20,000 civilians in an astonishing 2,140 missions | Daily Mail Online


morale: IAF never back down even they are flying obsolete mig 21s ... or they never turned back to save civilians under extreme conditions. .. only dumb @$$ fools think low...

 

[Contrarian]

IAF crash rate has been declining very steadily over the last 6 years.

The trend line is very clear.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Don't tell me that IAF is not riddled with the plane crashes which is amongst the highest in the world.

I am telling you this and I have given you facts to back it up- not just "gut feeling".

but crashes of likes of C-130 J or Su-30s are just unacceptable.

Again by your own arbitrary assessment. The crash of the Super Herc was down to a very specific set of circumstances. And as for the Su-30 crashes this is only the 5TH Su-30MKI crash in 17-12 years (whichever way you want to look at it) and the IAF operates over 200 of these birds with a further 70+ on order (by far the largest Su-30MK series fleet anywhere in the world) which isn't bad going considering the MKI pilots log over 250 flight hours on their birds every year (some of the highest flight hours any pilot in any AF)- another fact ignored by these spiteful/ignorant "journalists". No plane is 100% safe and especially not fighter jets.

can you post the crash rates of pak and China and nations

Come on, neither nation (especially not China) are going to release reliable figures of such things.

 

[RKO]

I am telling you this and I have given you facts to back it up- not just "gut feeling".



Again by your own arbitrary assessment. The crash of the Super Herc was down to a very specific set of circumstances. And as for the Su-30 crashes this is only the 5TH Su-30MKI crash in 17-12 years (whichever way you want to look at it) and the IAF operates over 200 of these birds with a further 70+ on order (by far the largest Su-30MK series fleet anywhere in the world) which isn't bad going considering the MKI pilots log over 250 flight hours on their birds every year (some of the highest flight hours any pilot in any AF)- another fact ignored by these spiteful/ignorant "journalists". No plane is 100% safe and especially not fighter jets.


Come on, neither nation (especially not China) are going to release reliable figures of such things.

yeah...both are divine nations!
what about us and Russia?

 

[narcon]