Safety and Service Difficulty Reporting

Abstract

Today, safety is considered to be of highest importance in most societies. In the context of the military, safety is essential to averting loss of life and damage to a high value asset. While safety may take second place to winning a war its importance is further accentuated because of its connotation to battlefield readiness. Widespread Fatigue Damage (WFD) was discovered in "weep holes" of fuel tanks of some C-l4l military transport airplanes. Because of the loss of minimum residual strength, with the attendant risk of catastrophic fracture posed by WFD, the entire fleet had to be grounded and an expensive refurbishment program had to be undertaken before the fleet was deemed to be airworthy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADP010774

Entities

People

  • S. G. Sampath

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Diagrams
  • Flight Crews
  • Maintenance
  • Manufacturing
  • Military Aircraft
  • Safety
  • Safety Analysis
  • Safety Equipment
  • Standards
  • Wiring Diagrams

Readers

  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
  • Systems Analysis and Design