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Engine Failure, Aircrew Error Led to Fatal E-11A Crash in Afghanistan, Air Force Says


Engine Failure, Aircrew Error Led to Fatal E-11A Crash in Afghanistan, Air Force Says
An E-11A outfitted with a Battlefield Airborne Communications Node sits on the runway at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Nov. 16, 2018. (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Kaylee Dubois)
21 Jan 2021
As an Air Force E-11A battlefield communications aircraft conducted missions over Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 27, 2020, a fan blade broke inside the left engine. Efforts to address the problem led to a series of missteps that caused the aircraft to crash, killing the two pilots, according to a new Accident Investigation Board report.
The report, released Thursday by Air Combat Command, concluded that the broken blade caused the left engine to shut down automatically. But the pilots improperly assessed that the right engine had failed or been damaged and initiated right engine shutdown procedures, it adds. ....

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Lockerbie bombing: How brother of one of the victims tracked down suspected bomb-maker


How I found the Lockerbie bomber : Victim s brother pored over CIA cables, travelled to Libya and met an assassin before giving suspect s name to the FBI - now US is set to charge him
US prosecutors are set to charge Abu Agila Mas ud with making the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 - killing 259 people 
Charges against Mas ud stem from an investigation carried out by Ken Dornstein 
Dornstein s older brother, David, then 25, was one of those killed on the flight 
Ken spent six years and $350,000 tracking down Mas ud, who is thought to be serving 10 years in a Libyan jail for being Gaddafi s master bomb-maker ....

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US to charge 'Lockerbie bombmaker'


The US is set to unseal charges against a Libyan man suspected of assembling the bomb which killed 270 when it was detonated during a Pan Am flight over Scotland 32 years ago. 
The downing of Pan Am flight 103, travelling from London to New York on December 21, 1988, killed hundreds of people over Lockerbie in Britain s largest terrorist atrocity. 
Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty in 2001 of mass murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years, was the only person convicted of the attack. 
But now, the US Justice Department is expected to unseal a criminal complaint against Abu Agila Mohammad Masud, who is currently held by Libyan authorities. ....

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