THE HUMAN ERROR


to figure out just what could go wrong with your time-saving idea. He was actually more worried about being fired for burning up their scrap metal. I learned that when you photograph an object, to never assume you know why it’s there until you prove it. Had there been no survivors or witnesses, I may not have realized that the saw held the answer to the fire. Everyone got a good laugh at the “official report” that I submitted, but it never left the office.


#2 NEVER TURN BACK The aircraft had just come out of maintenance that included resealing a leaking fuel tank. The aircraft belonged to a check pilot for a major airline and had been


bought so that his son could build up his flying experience. It was to be flown back to a major airport, so the father and son flipped as to who would get to fly and who had to drive. The father won and the son watched as he took off. At about 150 feet in the air, just past the end of the runway, the engine quit and the aircraft began a steep turn in order to turn back. The aircraft stalled and descended from about 100 feet straight into


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the ground. The son was the first to arrive and told me that he realized that his dad was hurt real bad and wanted to give him artificial respiration but he had no face. The accident was unsurvivable with G forces in excess of 200. If you look at the empennage you can see that the metal is crumpled from the sudden stop in spite the impact creating an 18-inch hole in the soft ground. My job was to answer the son’s whys. Why did the engine fail and why did dad turn back? Fortunately, the wreckage did not burn and a teardown of the engine revealed that water in the fuel was the reason for the engine stoppage. A fuel leak repair called for the top of the integral tank to be removed, sealant be applied along the bottom of the wing ribs


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