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2019-03-22 China-Japan-Koreas

SK anti-aircraft missile misfire due to 'mistake': Air Force

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#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|| 2019-03-22 04:33|| Front Page Top

#2 They got the manual in palestinian?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-22 07:18|| 2019-03-22 07:18|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-03-22 09:30|| Front Page Top

#4 And then you have the July 1996 TWA 800 'conspiracy' theories.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-22 09:38|| 2019-03-22 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Shut up and get to work. We need to be done by ~~lunch.~~ launch.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-22 10:36|| 2019-03-22 10:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-03-22 14:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-03-22 14:51|| Front Page Top

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