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EA-18G COCKPIT ICING-
Navy investigating incident that left crew from Whidbey naval air station blind, freezing
Originally published February 28, 2018 at 8:16 pm
The cockpit temperature of an EA-18G Growler reportedly plunged to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Ice-coated flight instruments and windows, forced the plane’s two-person crew to land using a Garmin watch and spoken instructions from air controllers.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-...lind-freezing/
Originally published February 28, 2018 at 8:16 pm
The cockpit temperature of an EA-18G Growler reportedly plunged to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Ice-coated flight instruments and windows, forced the plane’s two-person crew to land using a Garmin watch and spoken instructions from air controllers.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-...lind-freezing/
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According to the article:
the crew suffered serious injuries from frostbite, including severe blistering and burns on their hands.
But the same article also stated:
One of the crew members has since “returned to a flight status,”
Those sound like mutually exclusive sentences to me. What am I missing?
the crew suffered serious injuries from frostbite, including severe blistering and burns on their hands.
But the same article also stated:
One of the crew members has since “returned to a flight status,”
Those sound like mutually exclusive sentences to me. What am I missing?
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https://www.defensenews.com/breaking...rowler-flight/
SLF here ---except for mt raineer and adams and baker - they could have descended to 11,000 feet on their route back to Whidbey- something doesn't seem to add up in the description re flight level and oprt emegency ox ??
The fog inside the aircraft iced over the instrument panel, forcing the pilot and electronic warfare officer to use a Garmin watch to keep track of their heading and altitude while air controllers began relaying instructions to the crew. The pilot and EWO were forced to use the emergency oxygen supply, which was completely depleted by the end of the flight.
SLF here ---except for mt raineer and adams and baker - they could have descended to 11,000 feet on their route back to Whidbey- something doesn't seem to add up in the description re flight level and oprt emegency ox ??
Lower altitude increasing burn. If they weren’t able to see displays or outside, they may have needed a GCA recovery meaning they needed NUW.
Or perhaps as you suggest there’s more to the story.
Or perhaps as you suggest there’s more to the story.
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my point is simply that many other factors either were not known by reporters or simply not understood or not divulged.
Do any of those three airports have ground controlled approaches (GCAs)? If as the piece indicates the aircraft’s displays were unusable, a PAR would be a logical solution to that, potentially to a trap if zero viz. The USAF was moving away from GCA’s when I left active duty, no idea where they are with them now, potentially taking McCord out of contention. Could also be things weren’t as bad as made out to be and they wanted to recover to home base.
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Remember this happening, total cabin heating failure, to a F4 [FG1] QRA crew on east of Iceland, back in the day...think they eventually recovered.
