A guy I used to work with was in the Air Force, and they found a skeleton of a man they thought went AWOL inside of one of the wing fuel tanks on one of the big jet planes. I don't remember the entire story of how he got into there, but it had something to do with him performing maintenance and him getting overcome with fumes, and no one thinking to check before buttoning it up. I guess it had been over a year before they found the guy. I don't know what they did about his family, but I can imagine that they tried to hush it up.
Was the guy crawling around in there without any tools? I can't imagine why anyone would have done that, but he must have been, because in the Air Farce you can lose a man, but never lose a tool. A lost tool might get sucked into a jet engine and destroy it, or migrate to where it jams a control, etc. All tools have to be checked in at the end of shift or no one goes home...
Worst case I personally know of, it wasn't a lost tool, but just a #4 lockwasher. (It's hard to keep track of all the tools, but pretty much impossible to also account for small expendable hardware.) This was left loose inside the switchbox that configures dropping bombs. Eventually it bridged two terminals on the back of a switch, and the F111-D dropped a practice bomb while taxiing to the runway. There was no damage, but the brass may have been extra-sensitive about this because five or ten years earlier, another F111-D dropped a practice bomb in flight, landing in downtown Clovis, NM. So everyone was tearing that fighter apart, and the squadron was grounded until they knew what had happened. I found that loose washer in a few hours. The maintenance chiefs confirmed it was the cause, so then all we had to do to un-ground the squadron was to remove, take apart, and inspect every one of those boxes...
Corpse water!! You're a funny guy!! Hehehe!
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DeleteOh crap. I lived and worked in that area back in the 90's. Come to think of it, I recall the water there tasted terrible...
ReplyDeleteA guy I used to work with was in the Air Force, and they found a skeleton of a man they thought went AWOL inside of one of the wing fuel tanks on one of the big jet planes. I don't remember the entire story of how he got into there, but it had something to do with him performing maintenance and him getting overcome with fumes, and no one thinking to check before buttoning it up.
ReplyDeleteI guess it had been over a year before they found the guy. I don't know what they did about his family, but I can imagine that they tried to hush it up.
Was the guy crawling around in there without any tools? I can't imagine why anyone would have done that, but he must have been, because in the Air Farce you can lose a man, but never lose a tool. A lost tool might get sucked into a jet engine and destroy it, or migrate to where it jams a control, etc. All tools have to be checked in at the end of shift or no one goes home...
DeleteWorst case I personally know of, it wasn't a lost tool, but just a #4 lockwasher. (It's hard to keep track of all the tools, but pretty much impossible to also account for small expendable hardware.) This was left loose inside the switchbox that configures dropping bombs. Eventually it bridged two terminals on the back of a switch, and the F111-D dropped a practice bomb while taxiing to the runway. There was no damage, but the brass may have been extra-sensitive about this because five or ten years earlier, another F111-D dropped a practice bomb in flight, landing in downtown Clovis, NM. So everyone was tearing that fighter apart, and the squadron was grounded until they knew what had happened. I found that loose washer in a few hours. The maintenance chiefs confirmed it was the cause, so then all we had to do to un-ground the squadron was to remove, take apart, and inspect every one of those boxes...
Ahhh! That special bouquet and piquant taste...😁
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