Investigators will walk through the wreckage path, taking pictures and documenting what came down and where. They’ll also be speaking with the pilot of the downed F-35.
on an Eielson Air Force Base runway Tuesday and the pilot was able to safely eject from the plane and was taken to Bassett Army Hospital for evaluation, according to the 354th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Department.
Dr. Jeff Edwards of McCall, Idaho, is a retired U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder bombardier/navigator. He has also been an aircraft accident investigator for more than 25 years — investigating over 500 accidents worldwide — including military fighter jet investigations. “So depending on the time of day when it occurs and the airline schedule, they’ll be up there either late that afternoon or late that evening and then next morning.”
The investigator sent from Albuquerque will act as a guide for the board, as Edwards says, members of the board may not have prior experience in accident investigations. He said that in the military, there is a 72-hour history that investigators want to know about the pilot.“So they’re gonna go back to Saturday, for example, and say, ‘OK, what did you do Saturday?’ ‘What time did you get up?’ ‘What time did you go to bed?’”
“There’s particular speeds for different phases of flights. There’s configurations where the leading edge flaps down, trailing edge flaps, was the airplane configured for landing or whatever phase he was in.” “From your first day of what we call undergraduate pilot training, I remember very clearly showing up with my class of 20 of us at 5 a.m., nervous, in our flight suits, we’re all seated at our tables.”
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