PAF's technician dies as aircraft gun goes off

[alibaz]

Inna Lillah e wa Inna Ilehy e Rajeoon

Rest in Peace brave soldier. We are proud of you

 

[Muradk]

Someone screwed up big time something like this doesn't happen very often specially on a flight line which has Mirages on it. Mirage does have a problem when you shut down the fighter it throws out JP through its belly and the crew is always standing with a big bucket as you switch off.

 

[sparklingway]

Faulty jet gun kills one at PAF base

LAHORE: A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) technician was killed and five others were injured when a gun of a fighter jet went off accidentally at the PAF Masroor base in Karachi on Friday, a private TV channel reported. According to the PAF spokesman, the gun shot fires due to the short-circuiting in the jet when it was being overhauled and refuelled in a bunker.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[TOPGUN]

Sad news... but sometimes things do go wrong may ALLAH bless his soul in peace ameen.

 

[third eye]

Very unfortunate, accidents do happen when handling live ammo. Journalists have a strange way of combining news, the second part is completely unrelated to the topic.


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KARACHI – A technician of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) died accidentally while another was wounded in a firing incident in the premises of the PAF Base Masroor within the limits of Maripur police station.

PAF spokesman Muhammad Nadeem Khan said that a person probably a technician, died while another sustained injuries in the incident. He said that the incident took place when some technicians were working on a fighter aircraft and its gun accidentally went off. Khan further said that the legal process was underway and inquiry orders have been issued to probe the matter. “Nothing could be said about the actual names and the incident until the investigation is finalised,” Khan said.

Meanwhile, a handicapped chairman of the Apna Sahara Welfare Trust was shot dead in an incident of target killing within the limits of Sir Syed police station on Friday night.

New Karachi Town SP Qamaruz Zaman said that the victim Jaffer Shah, 45 was sitting outside his office located at Sector 7-A, Bilal Colony in North Karachi where unidentified motorcyclists came and shot him dead.

The victim sustained three bullets in his upper torso and was moved to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where according to doctors, he succumbed to the injuries.

 

[JonAsad]

Sad News Indeed,

Condolences to the Shaheed's Family.

 

[Patriot]

Faulty jet gun kills one at PAF base

LAHORE: A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) technician was killed and five others were injured when a gun of a fighter jet went off accidentally at the PAF Masroor base in Karachi on Friday, a private TV channel reported. According to the PAF spokesman, the gun shot fires due to the short-circuiting in the jet when it was being overhauled and refuelled in a bunker.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

RIP.The same thing happened at USS Midway in Vietnam War when a Phantom F5 launched a missile while it was still on the ground due to short circuit.

 

[mjnaushad]

Sad Incident....

BTW Thread already posted. Also i don't understand why they merged target killing news with this news.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/military-aviation/77652-accident-masroor-airbase.html

 

[air marshal]

PAF's technician dies as aircraft gun goes off
October 22, 2010

KARACHI: A technician of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) died accidentally while another was wounded in a firing incident in the premises of the PAF Base Masroor within the limits of Maripur police station.

PAF spokesman Muhammad Nadeem Khan said that a person probably a technician, died while another sustained injuries in the incident. He said that the incident took place when some technicians were working on a fighter aircraft and its gun accidentally went off. Khan further said that the legal process was underway and inquiry orders have been issued to probe the matter. “Nothing could be said about the actual names and the incident until the investigation is finalised,” Khan said.

Source: PAF's technician dies as aircraft gun goes off | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online

 

[Irfan Baloch]

rest in peace
I think his body would have been blown to bits even if only one bullet hit him. those projectiles are meant for obliterating planes and vehacles (while straffing) what chance does a human stand?

 

[naumananjum]

Inna Lillah e wa Inna Ilehy e Rajeoon
.
a sad news
.
but it should not happen again
steps should be taken to avoid such incidents in future

 

[gambit]

Some very important items are missing...

Disabling The Weight On Wheels Switch | Air Safety Week | Find Articles at BNET

According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), maintenance performed by General Dynamics Aviation Services personnel in Palm Beach, Fla., failed to remove tongue depressors that were being used to disable the weighton-wheels (WOW) switch of a Gulfstream V on jacks. That practice led to a hard landing causing substantial damage to the airplane, according to the NTSB's final report of the Feb. 14, 2002, incident (NTSB identification number MIA02lA060). Shortly after departure, the pilot requested a return for landing because the landing gear would not retract. As the jet flared for landing and the crew pulled the power levers back to idle, the spoilers deployed because of the disabled WOW switch.

The weight-on-wheels (WoW) switch removes/enables electrical power on certain systems. Pitot heat is 'remove', meaning electrical power to the heater element in the pitot and angle-of-attack probes are removed the moment aircraft weight is fully on the landing gear. Pitot heat electrical power is enabled when weight is off wheels...

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pitot heat and other systems safe if mistakenly left on after landing, e.g., via an interlock with the weight on wheels sensor or a reduction in power when overheating (better yet: the Garmin knows when the airplane is flying because it turns the transponder on and off automatically and also runs a flight timer; the Garmin also knows the outside temperature because it displays it; why can't the Garmin system turn on the pitot heat if the airplane is flying and temps are below 10C?)

The system switch is essentially a heavy duty mechanical device NOT easily depressed by a person.

The WoW switch disables not only pitot heat, because we do not want to burn anyone's hands or head, but also prevent full radar transmit, because we do not want to accidentally radiate people on the ground, and remove weapons electrical power, because we do not want this sort of catastrophic events where people are shot. Either the aircraft was on jacks, therefore in a 'weight-off-wheels' condition, or the WoW circuit breaker was opened, creating the same 'weight-off-wheels' condition. For live weapons testing, it is usually better to have the aircraft fully weight-on-wheels BUT open the WoW CB, creating a 'weight-off-wheels' condition. For full radar transmit power, we can go either way since unlike gun recoil the radar does not create any physical motions throughout the aircraft.

So what happened?

 

[Super Falcon]

Condolunces to the familes of those who are not with us this time but this is very very rare incident anyway what fighter jet it was i guess may be it was our old mirage

 

[Jungibaaz]

very sad
R.I.P

May he find a place in Jannah.

 

[Tajdar adil]

Its realy sad.