F-22 Raptor involved in ‘mishap’ during Georgia training exercise
F-22 Raptor involved in ‘mishap’ during Georgia training exercise
An F-22 Raptor taking part in a fighter exercise Monday in Savannah, Georgia, was involved in a mishap around 11:30 a.m. local time.
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The mishap is the second to occur in the last week. On April 30, an F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 49th Wing crashed outside of Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
On average, 3 1/2 F-22s have been involved in Class B incidents annually during the past decade
Class B incidents involved between $600,000 and $2.5 million in damages, a permanent partial disability, inpatient hospitalization of three or more personnel, or a combination of those factors.
On another note, putting the section explaining what a 'Class B incident' is BEFORE the piece stating that multiple aircraft have experienced a 'Class B incident' (so that it looks like it is being brought up unprompted) is just the sort of excellent editing I'd expect from 'Airforce Times'; it's also nice to know that 900 billion is going towards outstanding maintenance and safety systems.
Previous belly landings like this have taken as much as five years to repair, and necessitated cannibalizing other crashed airframes for parts to complete
This is the military America is always saber rattling about!
and necessitated cannibalizing other crashed airframes
Good thing so many of them crash then, lots of spare parts!
F-22 Raptor of Theseus
An F-22 belly landing would be a class A incident though surely, since it's more than $2 million worth of damages.
no doubt
critical support to the US Military for describing catastrophic fuck ups to the public the same way I explain catastrophic fuck ups to my boss
I'd like to imagine if it was the same pilot that caused both incidents but he got John McCain'd into the air force so he can't get fired.
Hung over failson pilot attempts to take off, pushes the stick forward instead of pulling it back, nose of the plane scrapes along the runway.
2 Johnnie 2 McCain: ok can I get a redo? I didn't know it was inverted controls.
Next day, it happens again
it's also nice to know that 900 billion is going towards outstanding maintenance and safety systems.
Does anyone have the article of how the US military wasn’t able to produce extra parts for some weaponry/combat vehicle to do repairs because they decided to get rid of the mold from their storage room? They sold it to a private buyer and had to track him down to repurchase it from him lol