Posted on 07/25/2024 10:47:22 PM PDT by Ben Dover
A B-1B Lancer valued at more than $450 million that crashed in South Dakota at the start of this year missed the runway by 100 feet, a mistake accident investigators attributed to the aircrew's shortcomings as well as the poor training culture within units at Ellsworth Air Force Base.
The scathing crash investigation report shared with Military.com pointed to "failure to perform standard crew resource management," along with adverse weather conditions, ineffective flying operations supervision, lack of awareness, and "an unhealthy organizational culture that permitted degradation of airmanship skills" as contributing factors in the Jan. 4 crash.
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The report also points out that one crew member who was injured during the ejection was not wearing all the proper flight equipment. And the other injured crew member's weight was reportedly above both the ejection seat's recommended limit of 211 pounds and the Air Force's recommendation of 245 pounds. They weighed in at nearly 260 pounds during medical treatment, which "likely contributed to the severity of the injuries noted from the mishap."
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The US Air Force has a problem with pilot retention. Training is lengthy and expensive, with the most capable pilots often departing as soon as possible to the lush, green pastures of the airline industry. That tends to leave less capable commanders and pilots in charge of the Air Force.
flying with high heel shoes
I’M SORRY, BUT WHAT DOES IT MATTER IF THE PILOT, OR PERSONAL ON THE PLANE, IS BLACK,RED, GREEN, PLAID, OR WORSE A DIMOCRAT?
STOP THIS NONSENSE OR ALL OF THE GAINS THE BLACK COMMUINITY ACHIEVED WILL BE ...LOST...FOREVER.
THAT WOULD BE SAD, BUT IT WILL BE THEIR OWN FAULTS...NOT OURS.
DEI strikes again. We better let the Black Man know it isn’t working.
We had a overweight senior chief in the Navy. If he didn’t lose the weight, they were going to kick him out.
What happened to him? A guy, Private First Class, I knew in the Army got kicked out for being overweight. He was in the middle of his 6 year enlistment so I think he was happy to get out of his enlistment.
In the past year, I’ve been on a AF installation twice. I’ll just say....walking around the BX...probably one out of every seven officers/enlisted men/women I see...is a minimum of ten pounds over their max weight. My impression...if they ever tried to enforce standards of the 1990s...you’d have a manpower problem as you pushed these people out.
DEI leads to DIE
Reheadline:
“DEI recruiting and promotion causes huge loss and commotion.”
DEI has replaced CRM. Unbelievable. For years everything was CRM, CRM, CRM. Now it’s DEI, DEI, DEI.
I’m 5’11” and was lucky - until my 40s I had trouble keeping, let alone getting out of, the 140s. Had to binge on bananas and peanut butter to get through MEPS. I can’t image any airman being 245, let alone 260.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son.
This incompetence seems to be everywhere. Even the Carter years weren’t this bad.
“an unhealthy organizational culture that permitted degradation of airmanship skills”
The very real legacy of WOKE...
Assign them to the Marines until they get in shape. No more “Chair Force”.
I have a friend who was in the Air Force sixty years ago. His uniform still fits.
scary Bkmk
They’d get in shape or be OUT.
We had a deputy group commander, who was referred to as “pushing the envelope“ whenever we saw him in his flight suit. Colonels ought to have the same standards as anybody else, but too often people aren’t willing to make them accountable.
It all starts at the Air Force Academy. Which is a joke. A very bad joke.
I’ve read the report.
It is possible to get right to the reasons for the crash that involve just the last 55 seconds of flight.
The weather was stinko. They encountered wind shear in very low visibility situation. Wind shear resulted in three throttle reductions with no throttle increase in the last 55 seconds. Airspeed decayed to 152 kts from 172 kts. At 152 kts the vertical velocity increased to 1800 from 600 feet per minute.
They were not monitoring all the instruments available to them. They missed the decision height call so descended below decision height without the runway in sight. Had they applied power at decision height they might well have saved the day, but being below decision height, below proper airspeed, and in a high sink rate condition, they were destined to land prior to the runway.
There was an instructor pilot in the right seat the heavy crewmember, who in my opinion should bear the brunt of the cause but, there was a great deal of “other” important stuff the accident board found that spread the wealth so to speak for a half billion dollar accident.
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