Posted on Jul 26, 2024
$450 Million B-1B Lancer Crash Attributed to Crew Failures and 'Degradation of Airman Skills'
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Maybe it was degraded training methodology?
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This brings back some not so great memories. When I first arrived at my operational FB-111 squadron there was a court martial going on of a crew that had landed short of the runway. Since I had not yet been certified on our wings missions my first week was spent as a crewmember sitting in the court as a show of solidarity. It was even more personal for me because one of crew had lived one house down from me when I was in B-52s and had been a Linebacker II POW. The crew was eventually found not guilty but many of the things thrown at the crew by the prosecution were eerily similar to what's mentioned in the article about the B-1 incident.
Different set of circumstances on the crashes and a different era, but one thing that hasn't changed is that the first things to come from a Class A aircraft incident is to fault the crew and training. And I was a Safety Officer who investigated such things.
Different set of circumstances on the crashes and a different era, but one thing that hasn't changed is that the first things to come from a Class A aircraft incident is to fault the crew and training. And I was a Safety Officer who investigated such things.
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