In 2024 the US lost F-16C in one and a half minutes through a unique breakdown

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< p _ngcontent-serverApp-c88 Halloman Air Base crashed F-16C worth $ 21 million. The pilot managed to catapult < P > As writes & nbsp; Defense Express, the accident occurred as a result of a unique breakdown in the engine F100-PW-220 engine. An interesting point is that even if he wanted to detect the injury, the personnel < p >

< h2 class = "News-Subtitle CKE-MarkUp" > How US lost a fighter in 109 seconds of flight

~ < p >The investigation showed that & nbsp; f-16c & nbsp; fell approximately 109 seconds after take-off. The reason for this was that the engine literally broke away in the engine. It is about the “stator scapula”, the detachment of which caused catastrophic damage to the engine at low height without recovery.

< p > after the blade broke off and the engine is a pilot, the pilot tried to save the situation for another 40 seconds, but was eventually forced to catapult from a height of only 305 meters.

~ ~ ~ < P > It was in this case that the engine spatula is not possible during flight. It could not be provided.

As experts explain, the F100-PW-220 engine has 13 compartments, of which aviation engineers directly at aerodromes can only check 12.

< P > The inspection of these compartments occurs every 100 hours of flights using special chamber telescopes. However, the nuance is that such review compartments 1 & ndash; 4 and 6 & ndash; 13, but the degree of 5 was in the “blind zone”, and it was there that there was a tear of the blade.

< p > to look at the blade 5 in the conditions of any air base is essentially. It is only possible to check this engine F100-PW-220 during maintenance at Tincler in Oklahoma, where such power units are completely disassembled into all elements. This level of service is called “warehouse”. The “warehouse” engine maintenance of the lost F-16C has occurred in 2016. Because of this, the commission that investigated the accident decided that the cause of the spatula and the fall of the aircraft is not established. < br />0 ~ /p > > 62 > 62 ~ 62