Dave Doogan, Shadow SNP Spokesperson for Defence, sought clarity from the Ministry of Defence concerning the steps taken following the findings of the Service Inquiry into the F-35B Lightning ZM152 (BK-18) crash of 617 Squadron on 17 November 2021.
In response to Doogan’s query, “To ask the Secretary of State for Defence… what steps he is taking to mitigate the contributing factors identified in the report,” James Cartlidge, The Minister of State for the Ministry of Defence, confirmed that proactive measures have been initiated in light of the report’s findings, published on 10 August 2023.
Cartlidge elucidated, “The Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy recognise the factors identified in the report and its recommendations, with work already undertaken to address them. Significant improvements have been made to the Air Safety Management System and overriding Joint embarked safety culture; recent exercises aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth have provided first-hand evidence of the positive progress made.”
For context, the F-35B Lightning, stationed on HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, crashed around 11:00 hrs local time on 17th November 2021 into the Mediterranean. The pilot was fortunately able to eject safely, returning to HMS Queen Elizabeth.
The Service Inquiry highlighted a primary causal factor of the crash, as well as several contributing factors, which included issues ranging from the absence of security discussions in essential engineering planning meetings to fatigue among the workforce.
HMS Queen Elizabeth was in the midst of its return to the UK following a seven-month maiden voyage to the Far East when the incident occurred.
Although it was human error to a degree ,the pilot survived and the aircraft recovered let’s learn but move on . 👍
Er, maybe you need to read the report before claiming “human error”.
This was a systemic management failure at every level.
We cannot throw another £100m aircraft at these monkeys.
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The root cause of this failure needs to be addressed.
Systems need to be corrected.
Management failings need to be addressed
With a woke and unprofessional report like that he better wait seated.
Not even comparison with what procedures Marines and Italian do was in it.
I read the official report, but found it whilst very detailed very long. This months Flight international condensed it down to one page. Will delete in 1 day:
https://i.postimg.cc/RFF5THMq/img364.jpg
If SNP Dave Doogan has problems understanding the official report, then i’m pretty sure the above will answer all his questions
Yes,read pretty much the same report last month.SO, what part/parts is incomprehensible to this aledged politition ??? And who’s paying his wages??🙃 (good info Faruok⭐👍👍)
Nice thought, farouk – SNP switching on. Still wouldn’t mean f-all to our new Defence Secretary, mind.
On a separate note and still counting.
Lockheed Martin delays F-35 deliveries further because of TR-3 issues
07 SEPTEMBER 2023
“We have updated our F-35 TR-3 schedule projections with a first TR-3 aircraft delivery between April and June 2024.”
LINK
Another 97 delivered this year. Awesome 👌
https://www.instagram.com/p/CkrF-EMywId/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
“In an eyebrow-raising move, the U.S. government is planning to buy far fewer F-35s this year than anticipated. The Pentagon will purchase just 61 F-35s in 2023, a 35% decrease from its previous plan to buy 94 of the fighters. One reason for the procurement drop is that the government is waiting on the release of Block 4, a major hardware and software upgrade meant to enhance the stealth fighter’s capabilities. This is the first significant purchase drop in years. The cuts range from 25 percent to 50 percent across various branches of the U.S. military: the Air Force will… Read more »
The issue that the blank could get down that far even by accident, should mean that they should now have a long secure strap secured, with a £50 note attached on the end, as Magoo would see it then