8th FW F-16 Crashes in South Korea (Dec 2023)
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USAF F-16 Crashes in Korea For Second Time This Year, Pilot OK
Dec. 11, 2023 | By David Roza
A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter crashed off the coast of South Korea on Dec. 11, according to local media reports and a statement from the 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan Air Base. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and is in stable condition.
This marks the second USAF aircraft crash in the region recently—two weeks ago, an Air Force CV-22 Osprey caught fire and crashed off the southern Japanese coast on Nov. 29, killing all eight Airmen aboard. The Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy are all standing down operations for the tiltrotor aircraft as the Air Force investigates the cause of the crash.
This is also the second crash of an F-16 assigned to Kunsan this year. On May 6, a jet was flying a routine daytime training sortie when something went wrong and the pilot ejected near Osan Air Base, about 80 miles north of Kunsan. The fighter made a fiery impact in a local field, captured by local cameras.
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Facebook post from Air Force amn/nco/snco page...
Inbox: "Kunsan 80th maintainer here. 479 went down Monday. Its wednesday and we're prepping to fly.
This is the second acft lost in 6 months. None of my maintaners want to fly. Theyre all burnt out, exhausted, and nervous. The wing is pushing them to meet numbers that can only realistically be meet with fast, sketchy maintenance and thats exactly whats happening.
No one is suprised another jet went down. The bandaid fixes theyve been doing on these jets for years are finally catching up to us. We've all been outspoken about the shady practices here and how unsafe it is and how many jets could be grounded if people were honest during their inspections.
We thought that they'd finally take a step back for this one at least slow down on sorties but the wing clearly hasnt learned anything.
I know people on this forum are always in the comments under peoples post whining about their units saying stuff like "yall know what you signed up for" and "back in my day" but its not just crew chiefs complaining about weekend duty or weapons not doing sh*t or normal petty drama. Its actually dangerous here. We all fear the wing isnt going to take a knee or slow down until someone looses their life. They dont care about quality of life. Its full throttle on the expectations no matter the consequences and once the expectations are met they push even harder.
Keep us all in your prayers. We need them."
https://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/ ... file/2716/
Inbox: "Kunsan 80th maintainer here. 479 went down Monday. Its wednesday and we're prepping to fly.
This is the second acft lost in 6 months. None of my maintaners want to fly. Theyre all burnt out, exhausted, and nervous. The wing is pushing them to meet numbers that can only realistically be meet with fast, sketchy maintenance and thats exactly whats happening.
No one is suprised another jet went down. The bandaid fixes theyve been doing on these jets for years are finally catching up to us. We've all been outspoken about the shady practices here and how unsafe it is and how many jets could be grounded if people were honest during their inspections.
We thought that they'd finally take a step back for this one at least slow down on sorties but the wing clearly hasnt learned anything.
I know people on this forum are always in the comments under peoples post whining about their units saying stuff like "yall know what you signed up for" and "back in my day" but its not just crew chiefs complaining about weekend duty or weapons not doing sh*t or normal petty drama. Its actually dangerous here. We all fear the wing isnt going to take a knee or slow down until someone looses their life. They dont care about quality of life. Its full throttle on the expectations no matter the consequences and once the expectations are met they push even harder.
Keep us all in your prayers. We need them."
https://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/ ... file/2716/
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