{"id":107113,"date":"2020-11-10T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107113"},"modified":"2020-11-09T22:36:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T03:36:24","slug":"pilot-error-leadership-failures-and-faulty-ejection-seat-led-to-fatal-june-f-16-crash-at-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107113","title":{"rendered":"Pilot error, leadership failures and faulty ejection seat led to fatal June F-16 crash at Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107115\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Lt-Schmitz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-107115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Lt-Schmitz-458x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Lt-Schmitz-458x333.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Lt-Schmitz-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Lt-Schmitz-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Lt-Schmitz.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1st LT David Schmitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The report is out about the Shaw AFB, South Carolina F-16 crash back in June. We talked about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is, unfortunately, ample blame to go around. The young pilot 1st LT David Schmitz had never aerial refueled before, but he was making his first attempt at night. When that went poorly, he landed well short of the runway, destroying his landing gear. Then, the supervisor of flying (the man in charge on the ground) directed Schmitz to make a cable arrested landing (a bad call it seems). When he didn&#8217;t catch the wire, the plan veered off the runway, and Schmitz punched out. The cataclysm of horrible events continued when his ejection seat malfunctioned, killing him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2020\/11\/09\/pilot-error-leadership-failures-and-faulty-ejection-seat-led-to-fatal-june-f-16-crash-at-shaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Air Force Times<\/a> has the full scoop. It&#8217;s not pretty. I know nothing of the training pipeline for fighter jocks. With how critical aerial refueling is to current operations, I was surprised it&#8217;s not a required skill prior to being sent to an operational unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report is out about the Shaw AFB, South Carolina F-16 crash back in June. We &hellip; <a title=\"Pilot error, leadership failures and faulty ejection seat led to fatal June F-16 crash at Shaw\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107113\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pilot error, leadership failures and faulty ejection seat led to fatal June F-16 crash at Shaw<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107116,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107113\/revisions\/107116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}