Aerial Refueling Systems Incident Investigation Guide
Abstract
Aerial Refueling (AR) incidents, such as boom nozzle strikes outside the receptacle, drogue slaps to fuselage or canopy, and probe/basket separations often go unreported because the damage does not meet the services safety reporting thresholds. This document is intended to provide some basic guidelines on the gathering of information from such non-reportable AR incidents, but is not intended to be used for formal investigations of accidents or mishaps. Data for such investigations should be obtained from, but not limited to, aircraft AR configurations/ design, procedure, documentation, aircraft flight data recorder (FDR), pilot and boomer narratives, and historical maintenance. The document has four major sections to solicit investigative questions relevant to boom-equipped tanker, receptacle-equipped receiver, drogue-equipped tanker (including the Boom Drogue Adapter), and probe-equipped receiver aircraft. Each question addresses critical information that should be collected for investigation into an aerial refueling incident between the tanker and receiver aircraft. There are also sections to provide guidance on types of agreements between program offices and repository proposals to access the data for future designs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 27, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1076311
Entities
People
- Bruno Martinez
- Cesar Escribar
- Darren Veneman
- Gregory Twyford
- John Gomez
- Kemmitt James
- Kenneth Koontz
- Kenneth Mccain
- Mark Lane
- Michael Miller
- Nicholas Barnes
- Paul Pillar
- Scott Regan
- Scott Yerxa
- Wesley Durant
Organizations
- Aerial Refueling Systems Advisory Group