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re: USAF Instructor Pilot Passed Away This Morning Due to Ejection Seat Malfunction
Posted on 5/14/24 at 12:25 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Posted on 5/14/24 at 12:25 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
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It’s the bad judgement of the junior NCO ranks, in particular the E-5s and 6s making bad decisions to fly.
I haven't read the report and don't intend to, but how is this being blamed on enlisted folks? Are they alleging E5/E6s are signing off on maintenance records when they shouldn't be?
Posted on 5/14/24 at 2:22 pm to greenbean
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Are they alleging E5/E6s are signing off on maintenance records when they shouldn't be?
From the report:
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Eric Schwegler, G3 director at the Army Combat Readiness Center, told Defense News that mishaps are far more common at “the lowest level, when you’ve got maybe an E-5 [the lowest rank as a noncommissioned officer] in charge.
“[What] we see time and time again is they underestimate the risk or the risk changes,” he added.
As a result, inexperienced crews were “out-driving their headlights, out-training the experience that was in their force at whatever level,” Maj. Gen. Mac McCurry, commander of the Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Novosel, Alabama, told Defense News last month.”
So you have E-5s deciding on what the training is going to be for the entire flight crew and they are underestimating the risk.
Never mind that with the 160th crash in the Med the entire NCO corp and most of the warrants were opposed to flying that night because of the extreme darkness and how flat the Med was that night. The perception on where the water was ended up being near zero.
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