{"id":23396,"date":"2013-06-20T00:10:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T03:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=23396"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:26:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:26:08","slug":"unmanned-helo-crashes-in-afghanistan-not-pilot-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/unmanned-helo-crashes-in-afghanistan-not-pilot-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmanned Helo Crashes in Afghanistan.  Not Pilot Error."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much-ballyhooed <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/unmanned-helicopter-makes-first-airdrop-in-afghanistan\/\">K-MAX unmanned helicopter<\/a>, which has been making deliveries for the US Marines in Afghanistan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/article\/20130613\/NEWS04\/306130015\">apparently suffered a crash<\/a> a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>original<\/em> story contained this line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Marine officials did not release a cause for the crash, [PA officer Capt. Matthew Beers] ruled out pilot error, saying the aircraft was in autonomous mode at the time it went down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reports were ultimately edited to remove <!--more-->that conclusion, likely because &#8220;pilot error&#8221; can occur even if the &#8220;pilot&#8221; isn&#8217;t human&#8230;can&#8217;t it?\u00a0 In addition,\u00a0human operators are involved in several stages along the way.<\/p>\n<p>A fairly benign <em>faux pas<\/em>, to be sure, but an interesting one in this day and age of increased emphasis on UAVs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-ballyhooed K-MAX unmanned helicopter, which has been making deliveries for the US Marines in Afghanistan, apparently suffered a crash a few weeks ago. The original story contained this line: While Marine officials did not release a cause for the crash, [PA officer Capt. Matthew Beers] ruled out pilot error, saying the aircraft was in autonomous mode at the time [&#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":[58,5285,110,2318,149,4037,2,4038,53],"class_list":["post-23396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-helicopter","tag-k-max","tag-marines","tag-matthew-beers","tag-military","tag-pilot-error","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396","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=23396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}