An Air Force maintenance team in Alaska failed to follow “prescribed procedures” while working on an F-22 weapons bay, leading to a mishap March 25, 2024 that killed Staff Sgt. Charles A. Crumlett, according to a recent accident investigation report.
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The Air Force last month kicked off a feedback-gathering campaign about a plan to transform one of its largest and most important career fields: aircraft maintenance.
C-130 Hercules maintainers worked through tropical heat on Guam to keep the transport planes running troops and equipment across the Department-Level Exercise series.
Air Force maintainers weighed in for and against a sweeping new force design that would transform how aircraft mechanics learn their trade and advance through the ranks.
A new Air Force memo lays out how the service aims to condense its list of more than 50 aircraft maintenance job specialties down to seven, starting in 2027.
In Part 2 of our series about how Airmen helped defeat Iran’s April 13 attack on Israel, troops from the 494th Fighter Squadron describe how they kept launching jets even as their own base came under fire.
With the Air Force in the midst of its biggest testing boom in decades, the Maintenance Operational Test (MxOT) Division at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., is making sure those tests include an often-overlooked perspective: that of maintainers.
A new effort that requires aircraft maintainers to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) so that they can access more information about costly accidents will not change the level of transparency surrounding those events, the Air Force’s top safety officer said Oct. 18.
A B-52 maintainer at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., designed a new tool that shaves hours off the phase inspection process, delighting his fellow knuckle busters.
The 60th Air Mobility Wing, the last active-duty wing to operate the KC-10, conducted its final inspection on their Extender fleet ahead of the aircraft’s retirement in September.
A handheld flashlight left inside an engine inlet of an F-35 fighter was sucked into the engine during a maintenance ground run at Luke Air Force Base in March 2023, causing nearly $4 million worth of damage, according to a new accident investigation report. The ...
The average age for America’s fleet of F-15C Eagles is about 38 years old, and many of the aircraft’s spare parts are no longer produced or can take days to order from a manufacturer. Luckily, the Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Wing has a metals ...