F-22 Class A Mishap

[Guest Fuse]

https://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/...ion-damage.html

F-22 taxiway collision causes $1 million damage

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.

Apparently it doesn't take much to hit $1 Million with this bird. How long ago was the classification system created and with the cost of production and repair would it be time for reclassification?

[Champ Kind]

CF-18?

I wonder how many pallets that thing can hold.

[TacAirCoug]

CF-18?

I wonder how many pallets that thing can hold.

All Canadian military aircraft designations start with a 'C' (CC-130, CF-18, etc.), smart ass!

Edit: Link

Edited April 20, 2009 by TacAirCoug

[M2]

Doesn't Canada have insurance? Shouldn't we file a claim? It has to be their fault, our Raptor pilots don't make mistakes!

Oh, and rookie mistake, Champ! Do a little research next time, OK?

Cheers! M2

[AEWingsMN]

It has to be their fault

♪♬Blame Canada! Blame Canada!♪♬

Edited April 20, 2009 by AEWingsMN

[Duck]

If they had to pay for it, it would bankrupt their whole country.

[brickhistory]

We could take payment in beer.

[Champ Kind]

As long as it isn't that Molson crap.

[Cooter]

You know Canadien beers' like moonshine...come on!

Coot

[flyerpapa]

We could take payment in beer.

Or, Hocky game tickets.

[pawnman]

I guess that high-tech radar doesn't do much for you on the ground.

[GW]

Hydraulic failure? or sleeping pilot(s)/wing walker(s)?

[Skitzo]

Hydraulic failure? or sleeping pilot(s)/wing walker(s)?

That's it, time to start issuing pre labeled vials, syringes and piss bottles to all F-22 pilots. They can put them into their G-suits. They can take care of business before the flight doc even shows up.

[EvilEagle]

Hydraulic failure? or sleeping pilot(s)/wing walker(s)?

Jet issue that the engineers say is "impossible".

Nice.