A deadly Osprey aircraft crash last November off Japan was caused by cracks in a metal gear and the pilot’s decision to keep flying rather than heed multiple warnings that he should land, according to an Air Force investigation released Thursday.
First off, it's always easy to blame the dead pilot(s). The manufacturer has technical people and lawyers to throw shade and deflect blame. The Air Force has senior officers and more technical people and JAG officers to deflect blame and throw shade. the dead crew has nobody to speak for them.
Second, this accidents points to a syndrome known as "alarm fatigue", which is when too many alarms keep going off, most of which are meaningless, and, if one terminates a flight because of them, results in an ass-chewing. It's a phenonemon that goes back a very long time (as in The Boy Who Called 'Wolf'). Easier to blame the dead pilots for not figuring out which of the pasta-gazillion alarms were valid, instead of fixing the damn bastardized aircraft.
The SS doesn't let POTUS fly on the MV-22s operated by HMX-1, which should give you some idea how safe they believe those critters are.
I don't think that I have seen anything good about the aircraft since it was placed into service. The only reason I figure that they keep it in service is due to the extreme cost of both bringing it to completion and of the number of them that the military purchased.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of the U.S. government and our military, they never seem to tire of throwing bad money after good. Sadly in too many cases, it ends up with dead peasants. I guess that pilots are a dime a dozen.
It's the military-industrial complex. Which Ike warned us about, but about which he did fuck-all when he was president.
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