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1 posted on 04/19/2016 2:02:33 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

this is like your hound dog getting under your gas pedal


2 posted on 04/19/2016 2:04:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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“What happened heah?”
“Well, Colonel, I forgot to put batteries in my night vision goggles.”
“And?”
“Well, sir, I put on the goggles and everything was black, so I just figured there was nothin’ out there, and the mountain proved otherwise.”


3 posted on 04/19/2016 2:07:56 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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Sounds like it should be blamed on pilot error, not the goggles case.


4 posted on 04/19/2016 2:08:28 PM PDT by PAR35
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Preflight check of flight control would have prevented this. Back to basics and fundamentals and the simple things that kill people and destroy aircraft. Kneeboard charts and preflight-postflight checklists are there for a reason.


5 posted on 04/19/2016 2:14:05 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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Does anyone remember the airman who called Rush years ago to complain about the problems resulting from women in fighter cockpits?

He talked about how parts of the cockpit controls had to be disassembled in order to locate retrieve a “broken fingernail” in an F-16 that had been flown by a female.

He kept mentioning the “throttle quadrant” over and over.

I wasn’t completely sure about the guy. He might have been putting Rush on.


7 posted on 04/19/2016 2:18:22 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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The waste of lives, equipment, and treasure this “war” is inflicting on America. It’s astonishing that Americans still put up with the aimless floundering effort there.


9 posted on 04/19/2016 2:25:44 PM PDT by StormEye
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There was another model of aircraft (I don’t recall which) that crashed several a few decades ago because a pilot would drop a microphone (inadvertently, of course) into a well between the control-yoke-column and the floor, preventing pulling the yoke back to stop a dive.


12 posted on 04/19/2016 2:38:22 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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What really sucks is that in the few seconds before the plane hit the ground, the pilot probably saw the case stuck in the way of the yoke...


17 posted on 04/19/2016 2:56:10 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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FOD kills 14 more. (Foreign Object Debris/Damage)
But I thought they usually move the flight controls through their motions and make sure the control surfaces respond.


19 posted on 04/19/2016 3:11:45 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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Is it the elevator stop or the case that ends the range of motion and how do you know in the dark?

Bad mistake, easy to make.

My AP is like a surgeon. Counts every tool before he closes. Has cut out foam spots for every tool.

I want a real,well paid expert and anal pilot in the seat and not a drone or rpv on the airline I fly.


23 posted on 04/19/2016 4:15:15 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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