Posted on Feb 19, 2023
US Air Force Grounds Fleet of Planes Because Their Tails Could Fall Off Mid-Air
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LTC Trent Klug
SPC Bill Bailey It's always pissed me off that military contractors go on the cheap putting lives at risk.
Let's send them up in the place with the faulty pins and see if they make it down okay.
Let's send them up in the place with the faulty pins and see if they make it down okay.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
With my luck I'd be hanging on the boom when the fin decided to depart. I've lived through more groundings than I can count for similar issues, this is why we conduct routine inspections.
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Two ways to look at this. The former flying safety guy in me says the system working as it should. The taxpayer guy in me says once again procurement has put operators at risk by trying to save a buck. The surprise to me is that it sounds like the aircraft that need new pins must fly to depot for repair. I've seen tankers with the tail fin removed at base level so there must be more to the complexity of the repair than meets the eye.
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