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SK anti-aircraft missile misfire due to 'mistake': Air Force
2019-03-22
Posted by:Skidmark

#7  We were trained in 'Lock out Tag out' Where if you turn something off for maintenance and you don't want, for example, someone to turn on a high voltage line, you would either lock the switch in the off position or put a big red tag on it (Do not turn on!). We were trained not to turn the 'tagged' switch on - apparently some people would ignore the switch to dire results without training.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-03-22 14:51  

#6  Might ask the Ordies from VA-147 about why you disarm a cannon before working on it. ( See 1988 USS Nimitz fire).
dumbasses
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2019-03-22 14:11  

#5  Shut up and get to work. We need to be done by lunch. launch.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-03-22 10:36  

#4  And then you have the July 1996 TWA 800 'conspiracy' theories.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-03-22 09:38  

#3  And the ON/OFF switch from Boeing.

Actually, this one sounds like user errror:
"As the mechanics failed to have clear communication between them, they carried out a maintenance check with the operational cable still connected to the missile,"

Hey, Boss! What's the red tag on this switch?
Shut up and get to work. We need to be done by lunch.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-03-22 09:30  

#2  They got the manual in palestinian?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-03-22 07:18  

#1  ...(Reads TFA) Yeah, that would be a mistake, all right.

What's kind of interesting here is the dog that didn't bark in the night: the inadvertent launch site is, according to TFA, 85km NE of Seoul...which means that it would have been easily visible from the other side of the DMZ, and yet nobody said a word.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-03-22 04:33  

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