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Re:US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s ove... by ambicapter on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:11PM (#20651041)
Headline is pretty clear. If one aircraft shows atypical damage, they'll ground all the others just in case they're similarly affected. This probably entails inspections and maybe even pre-emptive fixes (depending on the resolution for the cracked aircraft). So a crack on one of them is just as bad as a crack on all of them.
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Re:US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s ove... by slashink on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:33PM (#20651130)
You’re right. Aviation comes down to being a numbers game. If one aircraft exhibits variances, the problem needs to be understood and if bad fixed before it has a chance to cause a real issue.
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Re:US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s ove... by salusbury on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:47PM (#20651187)
Think that this is indicative of the state of the US Air Force as a whole?
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Re:US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s ove... by xeromal on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:58PM (#20651232)
I think seeing cracks on ONE plane and deciding to review all of them speaks to a pretty high standard.
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Re:US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s ove... by WalterBright on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:33AM (#20651360)
"But the risk posed by the issue — that the wing could become dislodged from the aircraft — was so serious that the Air Force decided to move forward with inspections for all planes that could potentially be impacted."

I would think that's a minimum standard, not a pretty high one. Having wings fall off is embarrassing, expensive, deadly, and nobody wants to testify before Congress as to why they let that happen.

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Re:US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s ove... by HeWhoLurksLate on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:23AM (#20655176)
One of the mechanics on an aircraft carrier I was on (briefly, I'm not military) said that if they find even one nut on the ground, they'll isolate and ground every single plane they think might be affected.
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Re:US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s ove... by germinalphrase on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:59PM (#20651235)
Playing the numbers game is their job. Logistics win wars.
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