Source says J-STARS aircraft may have been sabotaged at contractor location

The Warner Robins Patriot ^ | September 25, 2012 | Gene Rector

[Never on my watch]

Joint STARS aircraft undergoing work at a contractor facility may have been sabotaged.

A tersely worded statement issued by Robins Air Force Base on Tuesday indicated that workers at Northrup Grumman’s Lake Charles, La., facility have discovered severed wires on an E-8C jet.

“To ensure the integrity of the maintenance process, we are working with Northrop Grumman to get to the root cause,” the statement added. “The matter is currently under investigation and more details will be released as they become available.”

[Never on my watch]

Has anybody else heard about this? I caught the end of the clip on the radio. This is the only news story I could find.

[JRandomFreeper]

Covered wagon or Helping Hand incident?

/johnny

[null and void]

ping

[Carl Vehse]

They could start by finding out how many American Islamoterrorists have clearances to work on the planes.

[mylife]

Send that work to us and you won’t have those issues.

[Cvengr]

Grandma, meant well, so after she recovered from her art restoration project, she's moved on to jet maintenance. She just needs some practice.../s

[Shimmer1]

Thank you for pinging me to this. I hadn’t heard about it.
S.

[boomop1]

Not a Broken Arrow or Bent Spear.

[Westbrook]

Don’t hire Moslems for defense contract jobs.

That warning will fall on deaf ears, but it needs to be said.

[JRandomFreeper]

Amazing how fast the training comes back.

/johnny

[piasa]

Union employees.

My brother used to find union saboteurs had stuffed hammers, bolts and other whatsits into the moving parts of F-15 engines from time to time. The test engineers had to go over the engines very carefully before running tests because of infantile union workers.

[piasa]

Grandma’s got lawyers now and is actually thinking about suing people who have been reproducing her “art” on tee shirts and mugs.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Someone who despises the Commander-In-Chief? THAT COULD BE ANYBODY!!

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Grandma committed a sacrilege.

[Drill Thrawl]

Someone who despises the Commander-In-Chief?

There's that racism again.

[tallyhoe]

I haven’t heard about this but I worked at Boeing Everett plant and it happened up there. From disgruntled workers I suppose. It cost Boeing allot of money to repair this.

[TankerKC]

I call BS.

[WildHighlander57]

I don’t get the significance of the picture; who drew it and how does it relate to the story?

[DrGunsforHands]

An amateur was hired to restore a masterpiece. Here's the before and after:

[Shery]

Scary!