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I don't know about anyone else, but I read reports like this and I think that it really doesn't take much for even the best trained pilots to screw up royally and cause the ultimate loss of life. It's the old "fate is the hunter" thought that seems to occupy my thinking more and more these days. It's just waiting on you and me to make that one stupid decision, oversight or lapse in judgment so that it can come down on us like a pile of bricks. Since my training wasn't anywhere near the quality of training these guys had received, It has to make me wonder just how close that "hunter" is to me at any given time.
Last Friday (4-15-16), the Air Mobility Command released the results of the accident investigation of the C-130J crash during a takeoff last year from Jalalabad Airfield, Afghanistan. It killed all 11 individuals onboard and three on the ground. The Taliban made claims of having shot down the aircraft but Air Force officials in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon said there were no signs that enemy action caused the crash. The investigation indicated that the pilot forgot to remove a hard-shell night vision goggle (NVG) case that he had placed in front of the yoke to hold the elevator in a raised position (see pictures in accident report) to provide additional clearance during engine running off-loading/on-loading operations (ERO). That action, along with the time of day (midnight), distractions during the ERO and misidentification of the malfunction once airborne, resulted in the crash. Here's a couple of links including the complete accident investigation if your interested:
http://www.amc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123472467
http://www.airforcemag.com/AircraftAccidentReports/Documents/2016/100215_C130J_JALALABAD.pdf
Last Friday (4-15-16), the Air Mobility Command released the results of the accident investigation of the C-130J crash during a takeoff last year from Jalalabad Airfield, Afghanistan. It killed all 11 individuals onboard and three on the ground. The Taliban made claims of having shot down the aircraft but Air Force officials in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon said there were no signs that enemy action caused the crash. The investigation indicated that the pilot forgot to remove a hard-shell night vision goggle (NVG) case that he had placed in front of the yoke to hold the elevator in a raised position (see pictures in accident report) to provide additional clearance during engine running off-loading/on-loading operations (ERO). That action, along with the time of day (midnight), distractions during the ERO and misidentification of the malfunction once airborne, resulted in the crash. Here's a couple of links including the complete accident investigation if your interested:
http://www.amc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123472467
http://www.airforcemag.com/AircraftAccidentReports/Documents/2016/100215_C130J_JALALABAD.pdf