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Safety history

• January 18, 1981Accident

  While conducting a Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization check the pilot at controls was allowed to perform his first attempt at shooting an obstacle approach at Whidbey Island NAS. This maneuver was inadequately briefed by the pilot in command during the mission brief.

  Lockheed P-3 Orion

  The accident was the consequence of the following factors: - The pilot-in-command failed to recognize a dangerous situation and take appropriate corrective action, - The pilot at controls failed to properly compensate for excessive sink rate during landing transition, - The pilot at controls began transition to landing attitude too late to arrest a high… Full accident record