F-22 taxiway collision causes $1 million damage

[tigershark]

F-111C/C
Can I assume the pilot future promotions will come a little slower?  Could ground personnel be towing the F-22 when it happen?

F-22 taxiway collision causes $1 million damage
DATE:17/04/09
SOURCE:Flightglobal.com

By Stephen Trimble

A US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor has sustained more than $1 million in damage after colliding with another aircraft parked on a taxiway.

A spokesman at Tyndall AFB, Florida, where the incident last week occurred, confirmed the F-22A struck a Canada's Air Force Boeing CF-18.

Despite a $1 million repair bill, the collision was a relatively minor, low-speed event, the spokesman says. Details of the damage are being withheld pending the results of a safety investigation.

The USAF defines a Class A safety mishap as any incident resulting in death or disabling injury to people or more than $1 million worth of damage to the aircraft.

Meanwhile, the RCAF has also dispatched a safety investigation team to Tyndall, says a spokesman for the 1st Canadian Air Division.

The spokesman was unable to immediately provide details about the damage sustained by the parked CF-18.

Source
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/04/17/325325/f-22-taxiway-collision-causes-1-million-damage.html

[F-111 C/C]

From what I've read on the incident is was while taxiing, not ground handling and although little damage was done to the F-22, the cost of proprietary materials is what drove the price to $1 million.

[Eldorado82]

From what I've read on the incident is was while taxiing, not ground handling and although little damage was done to the F-22, the cost of proprietary materials is what drove the price to $1 million.

F-111 did accident like that occured in the years of your service? interest to know wheter safety failures are present in the USAF

now. about the accident. to my opinion as one that was involved in investigating 3 accidents of a same kind- probably there was a reason like pilot just looked inside the cockpit for a split second and the accident had happen. this accident is probably happened that the Raptor's wingtip bruiser the other plane.
Indeed the damage is minor and 1 million $ is going to cover the technical repairs of the wing. dont remember that much of F22 is made of composite materials and repairment of a such costs lots of $.
i worked a period of 4 months in a clean room that produced composited material parts for Boeing Dreamliner ( B-787)

sometimes there is no connection between accidents that happened and promotion of a pilot. By the way
- what was pilot's rank?
- how many flight hours he had?

From my personal experience:
when a A-4Tj &40 came back from solo flight - a canopy was accidentally ejected in emergency mode ( canopy ejection handle was pulled instead of normal one). the aircraft stood grounded for half year, as the canopy was made in US ( due to the elderness of plane the canopies are not made in  mass production.) the canopy that we recieved was setted up for A-4T(h) so i've had to lie it upside down and change the inner wiring of the canopy.
the pilot finished the Academy as planned
But again this accident happened with A-4. And that accident happened with F-22...

[F-111 C/C]

We would have ground handling mishaps from time to time. They would usually involve someone who didn't spend a lot of time around the aircraft (like a 'back shop' guy) moving equipment and run into the pitot probe or a fuel truck too close clipping a wingtip but not very often. I can't remember a taxiing incident ever happening but I'm sure they had a few. The USAF used to say about pilots that when they screw up they move up. I guess when you're taken off flying status, it's actually easier to get promoted.

[Eldorado82]

We would have ground handling mishaps from time to time. They would usually involve someone who didn't spend a lot of time around the aircraft (like a 'back shop' guy) moving equipment and run into the pitot probe or a fuel truck too close clipping a wingtip but not very often. I can't remember a taxiing incident ever happening but I'm sure they had a few. The USAF used to say about pilots that when they screw up they move up. I guess when you're taken off flying status, it's actually easier to get promoted.

now about the back shop guys:  we had a strict order to move any equipment only by permission from aircraft tech's. like....i had to watch how he moves a stand or a cockpit ladder...

[Webmaster]

... or the aircraft clips the truck.