“An inspection of the aircraft’s wreckage found that about one-third of the fluid in the hydraulic systems in both the nose and right main landing gears was water, when there should have been none.”
For all the tech in these planes you would expect some kind of 0.50 cent sensor somewhere in there to let you know you have hydraulic fluid that looks like the coolant in an old Subaru with a failed head gasket.
https://archive.ph/JwOiE Somewhat paywall free link.
An inspection of the aircraft’s wreckage found that about one-third of the fluid in the hydraulic systems in both the nose and right main landing gears was water, when there should have been none.
WTAF? 1/3 of the fluid being displaced by water isn’t some weird condensation issue; it got pumped in like that. 100M aircraft and we’re using hydraulic fluid from some random ebay liquidator.
It probably sat out in a storm or was cleaned or something without the tanks being properly closed or they had a leak and then didn’t do a full preflight. That’s my guess, small planes can get loads of water in their fuel tanks sitting outside and it’s something we have to check each time.
Ea-Nasir is branching out
Ya, someone is getting burned at the stake for that.
Maybe… The thing is that the US is going full Russia where fealty is more important than results. And we all know how corrupt every level of government is in Russia.
For all the faults that the US has, and there are many, this seems like an unfounded take. The level of traceability and record keeping for DoD functions is absolutely insane. DoD is a hell of a long way still from the cesspool that Russia is.
Pete Hegseth has a hilariously bad record as SecDef. In any non-Trump administration he would already be gone (and would never have been nominated). Despite his significant fuckups, he’s still there because he’s loyal.
I won’t argue that. The complex policies around record keeping and verification I do not believe to have been impacted by that clown.
But they’re very actively working to get there.
Is this an insinuation about the maintainers, supply chain, or the engineering? None of those stakeholders want the finger pointing to land on them at the end of an incident like this.
This is me worrying that with the upper ranks being controlled by a narcissist who fires people when they tell him things he doesn’t like even if true… Things like this will become more common. Just like in Russia.
That’s a valid concern but not necessarily in this situation. No commander gets into what the wrench turners are doing outside of generating sorties and ensuring that stats are being reported.
The real options are engineering oversight or factor not accounted for, bad/defective/counterfeit part, support fuck up, or maintainer issue.
These kinds of mishaps are big deals on the flightlines for obvious reasons. This kicks off an intensive investigation. Here’s an older example.
“uncle Joe” hated bad news too.
Edit: To those who think I mean Brandon: Uncle Joe was a guy in Russia. Learn a bit.
Not sure I remember him demanding constant praise and gifts like dear leader. Or again, firing people for daring to report factual information dear leader didn’t like.
There’s a reason he is so thirsty for Putin.
$200m aircraft. And that’s an insane amount of water to have in a system.
Was it just water, or coolant of some description?
That special ‘hydraulic water’ was purchased at inkjet ink prices tho.
i love warplanes taking Ls
brightens my day
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
