{"id":14872,"date":"2011-12-20T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14872"},"modified":"2011-12-20T02:15:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T05:15:27","slug":"air-force-says-f-22-crash-was-pilot-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/air-force-says-f-22-crash-was-pilot-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force says F-22 Crash was Pilot Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Air Force Times <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/12\/air-force-f-22-crash-report-pilot-not-oxygen-system-blamed-121411w\/\">reports on the Air Force investigation<\/a> of the<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/f-22-pilot-capt-jeffrey-haney-killed-in-crash\/\"> F-22 crash in Alaska in November, 2010<\/a>.\u00a0 The report<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>blames the Nov. 16, 2010, crash of an F-22 Raptor on Capt. Jeff \u201cBong\u201d Haney \u2014 despite a malfunction of the jet\u2019s bleed air intakes, which caused an automatic shutdown of multiple aircraft systems including the primary oxygen system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In essence, the report says his oxygen system failed, but that he <!--more-->should have been able to maintain control of the aircraft and activate his emergency systems.\u00a0 Instead, he became disoriented during the night flight and hit the ground.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI find the cause of the mishap was the MP\u2019s [mishap pilot] failure to recognize and initiate a timely dive recovery due to channelized attention, breakdown of visual scan and unrecognized spatial disorientation,\u201d wrote Brig. Gen. James Browne, president of the AIB.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article says fellow F-22 pilots have described the emergency oxygen system as &#8220;notoriously difficult&#8221; to operate.<\/p>\n<p>While finding Haney at fault, the Air Force also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=8066393&amp;c=AME&amp;s=AIR\">awarded a $24 million contract to Lockheed<\/a> &#8212; to fix the oxygen problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force Times reports on the Air Force investigation of the F-22 crash in Alaska in November, 2010.\u00a0 The report blames the Nov. 16, 2010, crash of an F-22 Raptor on Capt. Jeff \u201cBong\u201d Haney \u2014 despite a malfunction of the jet\u2019s bleed air intakes, which caused an automatic shutdown of multiple aircraft systems including the primary oxygen system. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,834,343,5285,2663,1173,2665,2,2664],"class_list":["post-14872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-alaska","tag-f-22","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-james-browne","tag-jeffrey-haney","tag-lockheed","tag-military","tag-oxygen-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}