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Tango 5
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Tango 5

When something goes wrong in Navy aviation, it’s called a “mishap”. When it goes tragically wrong - the kind of wrong that leaves someone dead or strikes an entire aircraft from the Navy’s inventory - it’s called a “Class A mishap”. It didn’t take the Navy Safety Center long to determine the Tango 5 fire to be a Class A mishap.

Had we caused the fire? Had we contributed to it? … or was this mishap symptomatic of a larger fleet-wide problem?

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