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THE ROQKETEER THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1996 NAVAL .AIR WEAPONS STATION, CHINA lAKE VOL 52, No. 13 Harrier crash investigation expected to go smoothly • Maj. James Derdall's aircraft was very well instrumented for test of a ground proximity warning system By Barry McDonald Ed.tor I nvestigators of last week's crash of an AV-8B Harrier assigned to Weapons Test Squadron China Lake hope to complete their investigation prior to the 30-day deadline for filing the mishap investigation report (MIR), accord- ing to the lead inves- tigator of the aircraft mishap board, Cdr. Marti Sarigul-Klijn, of Test Wing Pacific from Point Mugu. Harrier, which was involved in a test of a new ground proximity warning system. It was being monitored with range cam- eras and was itself sending video and telemetry data to the Data Acquisition Verification and Emanation System (DAVES) when it developed problems. This data will contribute to the speed of the investigation. "This is probably one of the best instrumented accidents in the history of naval aviation," said SariguJ-KJijn. "And it will be extensively studied because of all the data that is available." Joining the commander on the mishap board are Dave Ganger, Test Wing Pacific and WTSCL safety officer; Marine Maj. Gary Munroe, AV-8B NATOPS representative from Marine Aviation Detachment, Chine Lake; Lt. Dan Crocker, aviation safety officer from WTSCL; and Flight Surgeon Lt. John Hall, China Lake Branch Medical Clinic. Observing, but not part of the panel, are Brian Craddock of the Naval Aviation Systems Command and William Gregory from the Naval Safety Center, Norfolk, Va. While the MIR will be completed within a couple of weeks, Sarigul-KJijn said DoD requirements say that results will never be made public. "The purpose of a mishap board's investigation is to determine what happened, so that we can make process changes to prevent the same type ofaccident from ever happen- ing again," he said. "We don't want to place blame. The people we talk to know the infonnation they give us will be held in confidence, so they are less likely to withhold anything. "I feel strongly that the public has a right to know how we conduct our busi- ness and spend the taxpayers money, but we have to have a balance between the public's right to know and in deter- mining the causes of accidents. We're not trying to hide any- thing, we're just try- ing to get at the truth so that we can pre- vent furt her mishaps." A separate Judge Advocate General (JAG) investigation is being conducted by LCdr. Dick Manski, WTSCL, and the report from that investigation is available through the Freedom of Information Act. Manski will inter- view individuals after reading them Marine Maj. James G. Derdall, 34, an AV-8B project pilot, suffered only minor injuries after ejecting from his disabled Harrier last Monday at about I :50 p.m. Debris from the Harrier was limited to a small area on Baker Range roughly a half mile inside the Station's western boundary. A small fire resulted from the impact, but no struc- tures were threatened, and the fire was con- tained at the crash site by China Lake fire- fighters. There was no ord- nance aboard the Photo by Tim Tyson, S&TD TAIL ofthe downed AV-88 was about the only indication, lost Tuesday morning, that it was an aircraft that was destroyed of the relatively small charred patch of desert on Boker Range. ' their rights, and they will be fully aware that their testimony may be made public. Since only one per- son conducts the JAG investigation, it will take consider- ably longer before it is finished and Dual changes of command set for July 25 on Admin Lawn T wo commands will change hands on Thursday, July 25, when RAdm. Dana B. McKinney is relieved by RAdm. (select) Jack V. Chenevey as commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, and Capt. Charles A. Stevenson, commanding officer of the Naval Air Weapons Station, is relieved by Capt. Stanley W. Douglass at a traditional Change of Command ceremony. Beginning at 9 a.m. !>n the Administration Building front lawn, VAdm. John A. Lockard, r-ommander Naval Air Systems Command, will be the guest speaker. Unifonn for all military personnel is summer white. All NAWCWPNS and NAWS personnel are invited to attend the ceremony. McKinney will report to NAVAIR in Washington, D.C., as head of the Engineering and Research Competency. Chenevey currently heads NAVAIR's Conventional Strike Program Office. He served at China Lake in 1992-93 as deputy laboratory director for NAWCWPNS and did a three-year stint at China Lake from 1977-1980 as a project pilot for the HARM Missile Program. An early assignment was as a member of the fonner Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Five. It will be his first flag command. Stevenson is being reassigned, under regular rotation, to head the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corp unit in Memphis, Tenn., where he will oversee ROTC programs at the universities ofMississippi and Memphis. Douglass will come to China Lake from the Military Satellite Communications Joint Program Office at Los Angeles Air Force Base. • ' , OCR Text: THE R OCKETEER June 27, 1996 ,/ I FF:DCOM AName You Can Trust. 1 For Macintosh or IBM. CustomBuilt PC Clones! The Finest! 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THE ROQKETEER THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1996 NAVAL .AIR WEAPONS STATION, CHINA lAKE VOL 52, No. 13 Harrier crash investigation expected to go smoothly • Maj. James Derdall's aircraft was very well instrumented for test of a ground proximity warning system By Barry McDonald Ed.tor I nvestigators of last week's crash of an AV-8B Harrier assigned to Weapons Test Squadron China Lake hope to complete their investigation prior to the 30-day deadline for filing the mishap investigation report (MIR), accord- ing to the lead inves- tigator of the aircraft mishap board, Cdr. Marti Sarigul-Klijn, of Test Wing Pacific from Point Mugu. Harrier, which was involved in a test of a new ground proximity warning system. It was being monitored with range cam- eras and was itself sending video and telemetry data to the Data Acquisition Verification and Emanation System (DAVES) when it developed problems. This data will contribute to the speed of the investigation. "This is probably one of the best instrumented accidents in the history of naval aviation," said SariguJ-KJijn. "And it will be extensively studied because of all the data that is available." Joining the commander on the mishap board are Dave Ganger, Test Wing Pacific and WTSCL safety officer; Marine Maj. Gary Munroe, AV-8B NATOPS representative from Marine Aviation Detachment, Chine Lake; Lt. Dan Crocker, aviation safety officer from WTSCL; and Flight Surgeon Lt. John Hall, China Lake Branch Medical Clinic. Observing, but not part of the panel, are Brian Craddock of the Naval Aviation Systems Command and William Gregory from the Naval Safety Center, Norfolk, Va. While the MIR will be completed within a couple of weeks, Sarigul-KJijn said DoD requirements say that results will never be made public. "The purpose of a mishap board's investigation is to determine what happened, so that we can make process changes to prevent the same type ofaccident from ever happen- ing again," he said. "We don't want to place blame. The people we talk to know the infonnation they give us will be held in confidence, so they are less likely to withhold anything. "I feel strongly that the public has a right to know how we conduct our busi- ness and spend the taxpayers money, but we have to have a balance between the public's right to know and in deter- mining the causes of accidents. We're not trying to hide any- thing, we're just try- ing to get at the truth so that we can pre- vent furt her mishaps." A separate Judge Advocate General (JAG) investigation is being conducted by LCdr. Dick Manski, WTSCL, and the report from that investigation is available through the Freedom of Information Act. Manski will inter- view individuals after reading them Marine Maj. James G. Derdall, 34, an AV-8B project pilot, suffered only minor injuries after ejecting from his disabled Harrier last Monday at about I :50 p.m. Debris from the Harrier was limited to a small area on Baker Range roughly a half mile inside the Station's western boundary. A small fire resulted from the impact, but no struc- tures were threatened, and the fire was con- tained at the crash site by China Lake fire- fighters. There was no ord- nance aboard the Photo by Tim Tyson, S&TD TAIL ofthe downed AV-88 was about the only indication, lost Tuesday morning, that it was an aircraft that was destroyed of the relatively small charred patch of desert on Boker Range. ' their rights, and they will be fully aware that their testimony may be made public. Since only one per- son conducts the JAG investigation, it will take consider- ably longer before it is finished and Dual changes of command set for July 25 on Admin Lawn T wo commands will change hands on Thursday, July 25, when RAdm. Dana B. McKinney is relieved by RAdm. (select) Jack V. Chenevey as commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, and Capt. Charles A. Stevenson, commanding officer of the Naval Air Weapons Station, is relieved by Capt. Stanley W. Douglass at a traditional Change of Command ceremony. Beginning at 9 a.m. !>n the Administration Building front lawn, VAdm. John A. Lockard, r-ommander Naval Air Systems Command, will be the guest speaker. Unifonn for all military personnel is summer white. All NAWCWPNS and NAWS personnel are invited to attend the ceremony. McKinney will report to NAVAIR in Washington, D.C., as head of the Engineering and Research Competency. Chenevey currently heads NAVAIR's Conventional Strike Program Office. He served at China Lake in 1992-93 as deputy laboratory director for NAWCWPNS and did a three-year stint at China Lake from 1977-1980 as a project pilot for the HARM Missile Program. An early assignment was as a member of the fonner Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Five. It will be his first flag command. Stevenson is being reassigned, under regular rotation, to head the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corp unit in Memphis, Tenn., where he will oversee ROTC programs at the universities ofMississippi and Memphis. Douglass will come to China Lake from the Military Satellite Communications Joint Program Office at Los Angeles Air Force Base. • ' , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1990s,Rocketeer 1996,Rktr6.27.1996.pdf,Rktr6.27.1996.pdf Page 1, Rktr6.27.1996.pdf Page 1