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Old October 26th 04, 07:28 PM
Peter Stickney
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In article ,
(NoPoliticsHere) writes:
"CZ" wrote in message . com...

This is the "MIR" for the famous Kara Hultgreen crash during a landing
attempt at USS Abraham Lincoln on October 25th, 1994.

http://www.panix.com/~baldwin/hultgreen_mir.txt

Thanks, I read the whole thing before posting to the thread.
I skipped some of the formalities, but I think it's clear what
led to the crash. How many female F-14 pilots are there?


"I skipped the formalities" = "I couldn't understand it on the best
day I ever had."
Here's what it said:
The stuck bleed valve on the left engine turned what would have
been a fairly minor correction into a compete loss of thrust from that
engine at a critical time. When you add in the lack of information
and training (As in it wasn't in the NATOPS (Dash-One, Pilot's
Operating Handbook), nor was it taught at the F-14 RTU) about flying
around the boat single-engine. That's a pretty finicky place in a
TF30 powered F-14. If the pilot had been trained to recognize what
was going on, and take the proper corrective action, the crash migh
not have occurred. The sex of the pilot makes no difference.

Note the Recommendations - Section 13.
The first two recommendations are immediate inspection of all bleed
air valves in the fleet, and replacement of the bleed valves with a
redesigned part.

After that, the recommendations are to add information on single
engine failures in landing configuration to the NATOPS, and actually
train for engie failures in landing configurtation both in the
Replacement Training Unit and in the Fleet squadrons.

Understatement of the Previous Century:
"MP's ejection system worked as designed until water impact damage
interrupted normal operation."

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Pete Stickney
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