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Fatal crash of US Marines’ Osprey in Norway blamed on pilot error
This should be free for each persons first five views. Pilot error was the cause of an Osprey aircraft crash in Norway in March that killed four Marines, the service said in a statement. (www.stripes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The V22 is one program that was cancel-proof. I remember in the early days when it seemed like fatal crashes were kinda common. I kept expecting it to get cancelled but it never did.
They should be grounded permanently.
I seem to remember hearing a lot of the same rhetoric about the AV-8 Harrier when it first came out. It was “too complex, too dangerous”. There were numerous fatal accidents. The British did a lot better with it than the Americans and it played a huge part in winning the Falklands war. I don’t have the stats at hand but a big difference is that the Harrier only killed one or two at a time. The Osprey can kill dozens.
We can go all the way b ack to WW II. The Americans had a plane similar to the B25 which was the A26. Its nickname was the Widowmaker. And the people it killed the most were its own crews.
Until Jimmy Doolittle demonstrated to A-26 crews how to handle an engine failure during takeoff.
Umm, me thinks you guys have your airplane types mixed up. The "Widowmaker" handle was used to describe the Martin B-26 Marauder, not the A-26 Invader manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
"For a time in 1942, pilots in training believed that the B-26 could not be flown on one engine. This was disproved by several experienced pilots, including Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who flew demonstration flights at MacDill Army Air Field, which featured take offs and landings with only one engine. Also, seventeen Women Airforce Service Pilots were trained to demonstrate the B-26, in an attempt to "shame" male pilots into the air."
"The Pratt & Whitney R-2800-5 engines were reliable, but the Curtiss electric pitch change mechanism in the propellers required impeccable maintenance, not always attainable in the field." Another issue at rollout and corrected by replacing same with Hamilton standard hydraulic props on later production aircraft.
Quotes from Wiki. and this link,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_B-26_Marauder
"For a time in 1942, pilots in training believed that the B-26 could not be flown on one engine. This was disproved by several experienced pilots, including Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who flew demonstration flights at MacDill Army Air Field, which featured take offs and landings with only one engine. Also, seventeen Women Airforce Service Pilots were trained to demonstrate the B-26, in an attempt to "shame" male pilots into the air."
"The Pratt & Whitney R-2800-5 engines were reliable, but the Curtiss electric pitch change mechanism in the propellers required impeccable maintenance, not always attainable in the field." Another issue at rollout and corrected by replacing same with Hamilton standard hydraulic props on later production aircraft.
Quotes from Wiki. and this link,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_B-26_Marauder
So sorry for the loss of 4 of our best. Condolences to the Families!!