I heard something truly disturbing today at a maintenance safety briefing. It was the cockpit audio of C-17 maintainers troubleshooting a servo-actuator beneath one of the C-17's wing spoilers. They were taking shortcuts during the procedure, and the spoiler ended up pinning and killing a maintainer(TSgt Joseph Gardner). I'm a maintainer myself, and hearing these technicians talk back and forth between each other was completely familiar to me, except the part when someone lost their life. It was a real awakening to maintainers out there to think safety always. In any case, I'm surprised that there is virtually no information of this mishap online, much less a copy of the cockpit audio recording I heard today. All I found was a small announcement on airforcetimes.com about the mishap. I wonder if that audio is around somewhere...
This kind of thing happens about every 5-10 yrs. In the late 80s there was a 141 destroyed at Travis because of lack of tech data use. There was a 135 that was that was over-pressurized and blew up like a balloon, same reason. The accident at Charleston was completely preventable and is the reason you heard it in class and TO usage is so emphasized now. If you are turning a screw you better have your TO open and on the correct page for the task. It's truly unfortunate that someone was killed because of lack of tech data usage. The audio from Charleston makes me sick to my stomach every time I hear it.
Originally posted by 12136977: I heard something truly disturbing today at a maintenance safety briefing. It was the cockpit audio of C-17 maintainers troubleshooting a servo-actuator beneath one of the C-17's wing spoilers. They were taking shortcuts during the procedure, and the spoiler ended up pinning and killing a maintainer(TSgt Joseph Gardner). I'm a maintainer myself, and hearing these technicians talk back and forth between each other was completely familiar to me, except the part when someone lost their life. It was a real awakening to maintainers out there to think safety always. In any case, I'm surprised that there is virtually no information of this mishap online, much less a copy of the cockpit audio recording I heard today. All I found was a small announcement on airforcetimes.com about the mishap. I wonder if that audio is around somewhere...
Obviously you didn't pay any attention to the Privacy act slide and how the info isn't to be disclosed without PA approval.
