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Oxygen Problems on F-22 Elude the Air Force’s Fixes
JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Capt. Jeff Haney was at 51,000 feet on a night flight above Alaska in November 2010 when the oxygen system in his F-22 Raptor fighter jet shut down, restricting his ability to breathe as he plummeted faster than the speed of sound into the tundra below. His plane burned a crater into the ice, froze 40 feet beneath the surface and was not fully recovered until the spring thaw. (www.nytimes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
It's amazing that for $400M they can't find and fix the problem.. One of the most disturbing things is that some of the incidents/accidents related to the oxygen system have been blamed on pilot error. It's hard to fly any plane when you don't have adequate oxygen in your system.
They better be able to fix this problem. The F-22 is by far my favorite fighter.
well I wouldn't want to fly it; not above 14,000 ft MSL at least....nah; I hope they get it fixed because it seems like it would be a wonderful fighter and our nations current fleet is getting pretty old.
Sad day when the world's most expensive fighter kills its pilots more effectively than any enemy could...
Hopefully the vest thing was the major problem and this most recent episode is something else and unrelated. As far as the F-22's cost, by the time the final tally is in on the
F-35, it may have it beat.
F-35, it may have it beat.
RIP to Capt. Haney
No excuse for this problem......not really sure but from what I've read the F22 generates breathable air via equipment on board the aircraft. To get a good idea of this works I believe either 60 Minutes or 20/20 did a special report on this issue not that long ago. I'm not an aeronautical engineer but why couldn't a bottle of compressed breathable air be placed somewhere in the aircraft for the pilots to use as a supplement to thier current system on the aircraft now. Just saying...