Contaminated Hydraulic Fluid Led to Fiery F-35 Crash in Alaska

Accountability? This is the kind of stuff IG's are supposed to identify so corrective actions can occur before we lose an aircraft or people.

This is what happens when you have vacancies and, take short cuts or ignore standards. The pilot survived, but it was a $200 million dollar loss...

"Both the barrel the hydraulic fluid came from and the servicing cart used to put it in the aircraft tested at more than double the limit for particulates in hydraulic fluid. The 355th Fighter Generation Squadron was short-staffed, without a dedicated hazardous materials program manager, investigators found. The barrels were not locked, the servicing of the cart went unsupervised, and the pump atop the barrels had no thread sealer, which could allow water in. Records for tracking which equipment was used and when were patchy."

Unfortunate. I guess Im not understanding why personnel weren't cross-loaded to assist with operations.