Chinook....US Army....complete number two engine gone from the aircraft
SASless . . . . rip van winkle arises from his slumber . . . .. were you telling us that you went out to fly this machine? Fair dinkum?
chiefy .. the number four engine is missing
well I come out and check it and give it a run up
no chiefy . .. I mean the engine is not there!
in the NSW Air Ambulance hangar back in the Queenair days
it was a cold frosty morning at 5 am. The patients were loaded
by the flight sister in the slightly warmer hangar as sometimes was the practice. Only on that morning our blonde beauty loaded two stretchers and two walkers into the plane before the engineer came out of his warm office to tell her that not only was the Queenair on jacks but the right
engine had yet to be reinstalled.
Pardon the drift here
It is good that Mr Unlikevice has come aboard again (his only postings being to this thread, curiously enough) For if nothing else its a subject that needs to be aired and revisited as often as mere mortals ponder the traps and snares potentially awaiting a moment's inattention, a lapse in mindfulness.
How ever many safeguards there are in place, how ever often the book is rewritten, nothing is a substitute for plane shrewd old eternal vigilance.
All the OH & S in the world will not prevent the blunder that slips past
every check point. It also has something to do with the syndrome
loosely called 'The nanny state'. The cure that worsens the malaise.