In a long-awaited report, the Air Force blamed the pilot for a controversial fatal crash in the Alaska wilderness last year in the military's most expensive fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor.
John 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
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Bull... At least in NAVY airplanes your oxygen doesn't get cut off by the airplane... CYA to the max by the Air Farce...
I've got to agree with Old NFO. CYA not just of the Air Force but for everyone responsible for this particular plane, the F-22. From the article it sounds like this (oxygen supply cutoff) is/was a known problem yet the planes were cleared to fly.
It's called hypoxia, and for the Air Force to blame the pilot error, then that would mean that all of these F22's going down would be pilot error, which then leads of course to the question of:
"Why is the Air Force is training it's F22 pilots so poorly?"
The Air Force's training is the common denominator here.
This is complete bull. The Air Force is blaming a pilot simply to protect their pet project, which has been under unrelenting assault. I am a huge proponent of the F-22 program, but the gremlins will only be sorted out if the Air Force is honest when accidents and malfunctions occur.
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