Or not.
Although you have to admit it was a beautiful day for a wheels-up landing, in Diego Garcia.
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Landing checklist complete!By lex, on August 3rd, 2006
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Do they not practice CRM in Air Force cockpits?
Oh, I’ve got something even worse. Just can’t put it up on the blog.
Can you email it?
Lex, A BLEG…I’m searching for a word but I just can’t see to come up with it. It’s German, I think, and describes a persons unbriddled joy at the misfortune of others. Any thoughts. Best
Heehee.
I have a sneaking suspicion Lex would be knocking on wood instead of demonstrating such unbridled joy, were he still flying…
Yeah, “there but for the grace of God” and all that. Do you suppose that might have been done on purpose – perhaps because one or both of the mains wouldn’t go down ? Definitely a career limiting move on somebody’s part, even in the Air Force.
Snake – the word you’re looking for is schadenfreude.
Snake Eater, the word you want is schadenfreude.
Good post mortem on a (nonfatal) wheels up accident here(last one for the major airlines if I am not mistaken):
http://www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/1997/AAR9701.pdf
A read of the transcript suggests one should be wary on those routine, semi-boring days…
0858:48
CAM-1 aw shoot. I can’t play tennis when it’s like this… well maybe
this afternoon it’ll clear up. actually I’ve still got a lot of time.
0859:00
CAM-2 go slats and five.
…
0859:30
CAM-1 look at the ground, it doesn’t look like much rain. It’s overcast.
0859:31
CAM-2 dismal.
0859:35
CAM-1 that’s not too bad. we don’t worry about.
0859:37
CAM-2 yeah. *** might be rather pleasant *.
0859:50
CAM-2 one ninety to the marker.
0900:33
CAM-1 I think the flaps *.
0900:35
CAM [three intermittent sounds similar to landing gear warning horn]
0900:37
CAM-1 well we know that, you want the gear.
0900:38
CAM-2 gear down.
0900:39
CAM [sound of tone similar to altitude alert]
0900:40
CAM [sound of thump]
0900:41
CAM-2 landing check, twenty five in (the green).
…0900:46
CAM [sound similar to landing gear warning horn starts and continues]
0900:50
CAM-2 (flaps forty).
0900:53
CAM [momentary interruption of sound similar to landing gear warning
horn]
0900:56
CAM-2 (here comes) fifty.
…
0901:32
CAM [sound of impact, loud rattling, rumbling starts and continues]
RDO-1 tower, nineteen forty three on runway two seven needs
some help]
Oh, that ol’ debbil Snake Eater knew the word full well. He was just trying to tweak your correspondent’s nose, not maybe understanding that there is very little in life so pleasing to an aviator, as proof of another aviator’s (non-fatal) buffoonery.
I may add those tow unfortunate souls were ex-USAF…Not that THAT suggests anything…
Dang it, Lex! You side-stepped my oh-so-carefully-laid snark trap.
If “something worse” is the same bird, I wouldn’t worry about blogging it.
I’ve been exposed… all you Naval Air types are just incorrigible schadenfreudeistas…Best
PS Didn’t the boys in light blue do this very same thing reciently? Or is it the same event?…. Sid might be on to something
I seem to remember that this one was indeed a hardware failure, not a headwear one.
Interesting putting a photo of the Bone next to one of the EF-18G… considering all the fun there was over the Bone’s jamming equipment in it’s early (and not so early) years.
Terms like “radically new” worry me.
“Terms like ?
“Terms like “radically new” worry me.”
I spent my formative years around the A3J/A-5 and a little later the RA-5…I know what you mean!
SGT Jeff,
One of my bubbas is CO of a Prowler squadron. When he heard the follow on would be built around F-18, he was worried, but now he tells me rest easy, all is well. Capabilities are very, very good.
Best
N
Does this mean the USAF will also be getting F/A-18G’s as well? Seems like a poor choice to go along with a “deep strike” unless one of the F-15E’s loads up with buddy stores instead of bombs…
Unlikely the USAF will be getting anything. DoD gave up the escort jamming mission period with the (premature) retirement of the USAF’s Spark ‘Varks, and the USAF gave up any sort of escort jamming (excepting a retasked Bone) to the Navy’s Queers.
I have it on good authority from a “Buff” driver assigned to the AFB at which this “broken-Bone” blocked the main runway for about 15 hours that it was, in fact, buffoonery!
“considering all the fun there was over the Bone?
“considering all the fun there was over the Bone’s jamming equipment in it’s early (and not so early) years.”
The Bone, like the Vigi, was a North American product. One can say that NAA’s engineers certainly had an eye for aesthetics in their designs.
But as is the case with many a pretty woman, those pretty aircraft came with some real issues and were (are) seriously high maintenance!