Originally Posted by
cazatou
Chugalug 2
Re Servicability.
A very good point about not knowing if the aircraft was servicable or not. We know from the BOI that the crew had a problem with one of the nav boxes on the first sortie. NO entry was made in the F700 but 2 Avionics Tradesmen "relocated" the RX Box - they volunteered that information to the BOI. What we do not know is if there was any other possible fault that was treated the same way. If the crew had entered unservicabilities in the F700 in accordance with standard practice we would know the state of the aircraft.
Every now and again I read something that simply cries out "has this person ever actually been involved in military aviation".
I can think of at least two sandy places where that sort of simplistic idiocy would have grounded aircraft for days on end, with the loss of valuable sorties and a real risk to lives on the ground.
I spent many years as an avionics tech and re seating boxes was a standard technique and an extremely pragmatic way of keeping valuable assets in the air.
We have had no breakfast, not drawing lines on a map and crew duty as the reason for this tragic accident and now we have failure to raise a SNOW as the cause, what on earth will come next
