What causes a boom arm to depart an aircraft?
Show Notes
Today's episode is by a Patron request, what happened to a KC-10A's boom arm that caused it to detach from the aircraft? A KC-10A was performing routine refueling operations as part of a training mission, when its fuel boom arm loses functionality and detaches itself from the rest of the aircraft! What happened exactly with this scenario and what are some of the lessons we can learn from this mishap?
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