Used to work with a guy that was in Marine aviation as ground crew. He told me that most of the crashes you hear about in the peacetime military are the result of the pilot managing to piss off the ground crew to the extent that they sabotage the aircraft. A favorite trick was to duct-tape a wrench inside the air intake. It would hold on during any revving up on the ground, but once airborne, the airflow would be enough to suck it through the engine. He told me several other stunts that were less damaging.
I have no way of knowing if any of that was true. I simply present it for your consideration.
But anybody that could wreck that many planes in peacetime as McCain did shouldn’t have been allowed to fly one in combat.
” He told me that most of the crashes you hear about in the peacetime military are the result of the pilot managing to piss off the ground crew to the extent that they sabotage the aircraft.”
Absolute horse poop! And that is being kind.
“A favorite trick was to duct-tape a wrench inside the air intake. It would hold on during any revving up on the ground...”
Even more horse poop. The guy you used to work with was blowing smoke up your butt.
I would say that is patently untrue, and further, is a despicable, slanderous, and scurrilous accusation.
Unbelievable.
That person is full of crap.
I hope nobody really did this. An easier way to sabotage an office would be to drop some MJ in his food. Instant positive drug test. I have a peer who came up hot and I am convinced to this day that somebody laced his food with something.