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Originally Posted by Bob Kontak
Skuze me...
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...while I touch the sky.
I hope that the Chinese version of the NTSB gets this right.
There are varying degrees of willingness on the part of many countries to get to the heart of the root cause of an accident.
I investigated a crash at the Sikorsky Factory that killed the Sikorsky pilot I was renting a room from during the week...I drove home on weekends and stayed with Yong during the week.
During the investigation, one of the engineers from the Depot in Cherry Point that had engineering oversight of fielded CH-53's remember an accident in an Asian country that may have been similar in nature to ours.
What we thought was the root cause aircraft dynamic component assembly for our crash, which we broke down and investigated in detail, was still intact in that country and had not been investigated or dis-assembled..
She flew over with a team that opened up the large assembly and found the exact same failure mode, from an accident that happened over five years prior.
We grounded the fleet of CH-53's.