{"id":7104,"date":"2010-09-07T00:35:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T06:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7104"},"modified":"2011-03-23T22:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T03:57:30","slug":"a-10-crash-blamed-on-pilot-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/a-10-crash-blamed-on-pilot-error\/","title":{"rendered":"A-10 Crash Blamed on Pilot Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/a-10-pilot-ejects-at-moody-air-force-base\/\">crash of an A-10C <em>Thunderbolt II<\/em><\/a> (aka Warthog) at Moody AFB in May has been attributed to &#8220;human error,&#8221; according to an Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123220437\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the report, the cause of the mishap was specifically attributed to the pilot&#8217;s initial decision not to abort the takeoff. After deciding to abort, the pilot applied an inappropriate braking procedure based on his perception of being at a lower airspeed. Additionally, pilot-static [<em>sic<\/em>, pitot-static] system blockage, task misprioritization, distraction and procedural error were all substantially contributing factors to the mishap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The months long turn around in the publication of the results of the investigation is not without precedent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crash of an A-10C Thunderbolt II (aka Warthog) at Moody AFB in May has been attributed to &#8220;human error,&#8221; according to an Air Force press release. According to the report, the cause of the mishap was specifically attributed to the pilot&#8217;s initial decision not to abort the takeoff. After deciding to abort, the pilot applied an inappropriate braking procedure [&#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":[332,224,5285,2,502],"class_list":["post-7104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-10","tag-ejection","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-moody-afb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104","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=7104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}