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adequate communication between the various operating locations.
Thus, it
was possible for the Commander of Task Group 7. to command all the air
opsrations while at the same time keeping the Commander Joint Task Force
SEVEN fully informed of the situation and responding to his orders.
Flying Safety was a special subject at all levels within the Task
Group.
The accident rate achieved was 21-3
per one hundred thousand
flying hours,
This compares with an Air Force-wide rate during Calendar
Year 1957 of
13.6 per one hundred thousand flying hours.and for the first
six months of calendar year 1958 of 10.8 per one hundred thousand flying
.+
hours.
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