{"id":15410,"date":"2012-01-18T00:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T03:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=15410"},"modified":"2012-01-18T00:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T03:26:57","slug":"a-10-crash-caused-by-training-mechanical-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/a-10-crash-caused-by-training-mechanical-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"A-10 Crash Caused by Training, Mechanical Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123286017\">has released<\/a> the report of the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/27\/a-10-crashes-in-georgia\/\">September 2011 crash<\/a> of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/aircraft.htm#A-10\">A-10C <em>Thunderbolt II<\/em><\/a> in Georgia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the report, the mishap aircraft&#8217;s stall warning system malfunctioned at 15,000 feet, preventing stall warning tones from functioning properly&#8230; Without evidence of additional malfunctions, the mishap pilot continued the FCF.<\/p>\n<p>At 34,000 feet, the mishap aircraft experienced a stall <!--more-->that quickly resulted in dual engine failure. The mishap pilot performed checklist items to recover the aircraft, but without success. The pilot located a controlled bailout area and safely ejected from the aircraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Air Force Times <\/em>notes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2012\/01\/air-force-a10-crash-report-011112w\/\">pilot had apparently not been properly trained<\/a> to deal with high-altitude stalls:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The report faulted training for not putting enough emphasis on high-altitude aircraft- or engine-stall possibilities. Because the pilot hadn\u2019t received the techniques to accomplish high-altitude checks, the report states, he was ill-prepared for the mishap scenario.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The A-10 &#8212; generally a low altitude air-to-ground platform &#8212; does not often operate in &#8220;nose bleed&#8221; altitudes, though it apparently does on FCF profiles, as this one was.<\/p>\n<p>A standard toxicology test after the flight revealed the pilot had apparently taken <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/fighterpilotspeak.htm#Go_Pills\">go-pills<\/a> without apparent authorization,\u00a0and will likely face sanction as a result.\u00a0 They were not thought to contribute to the mishap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force has released the report of the September 2011 crash of an A-10C Thunderbolt II in Georgia. According to the report, the mishap aircraft&#8217;s stall warning system malfunctioned at 15,000 feet, preventing stall warning tones from functioning properly&#8230; Without evidence of additional malfunctions, the mishap pilot continued the FCF. At 34,000 feet, the mishap aircraft experienced a stall<\/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":[332,134,13,619,224,5285,2,502,2255],"class_list":["post-15410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-10","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-crash","tag-ejection","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-moody-afb","tag-warthog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410","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=15410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}