I heard the one crash that killed those Marines out in Arizona was pilot error. Don't know how to fix human error--I haven't seen anyone who hasn't made a mistke misatke mitsake mistake or three...
"I heard the one crash that killed those Marines out in Arizona was pilot error. Don't know how to fix human error--I haven't seen anyone who hasn't made a mistke misatke mitsake mistake or three..."
Yup. Pilot error, although they had help from the aircraft and from the flight lead. At any rate, after the horrific Marana mishap, the entire V-22 community had engraved on their brains "Don't let your sink rate build up below 40 knots."
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I heard the one crash that killed those Marines out in Arizona was pilot error. Don't know how to fix human error--I haven't seen anyone who hasn't made a mistke misatkemitsake mistake or three...
Global Security has a good summary of the problem with that crash, which was descending at 250% of the rate of descent that they are supposed to use while also having very low forward air speed. That resulted in a condition that also affects regular helicopters, but the V-22 responds differently to the problem and pilots needed to learn a new way to recover from it.
There was also a severe design problem with the hydraulics that led to another crash and some severe problems with the control software for the aircraft. This article has a good summary of the crashes and what they did to fix the problems.