Mishap, Prevent the Preventable, Navy Safety Center
The Navy has a thing for publicizing mishaps. For good reason, the more Sailors are aware of prior accidents, the less likely they will occur in the future. Every month while deployed, the safety officer would send around an email detailing each and every mishap that happened in theater.
Naval aviation magazines are full of them, often written by the pilot, mech, or ‘FO who was at fault. Mishap, the Navy Safety MC, speaks about Preventing the Preventable:
I’m afraid I would be their weekly star, I am so clumsy.
Ah, you are allowed to be clumsy. You are not parking a $100 million plane. You may’ve hurt yourself banging your pinkie toe on your desk, but it is unlikely you are going to get sucked into a jet intake. . .
People don’t usually survive that, do they??? Glad I never did stuff like that…I’d have had a short life if I had….k
Some guy did, but he was wearing one of those cranium (cranial?) covers. . .
Isn’t that referred to as a ‘hardhat’, Navy One?? Get with it, kid…k
Ahh, on the flight deck they wear cranials. They look like this. . .
‘Mishap’ needs to step away from the road edge, and not text and walk at the same time… other wise he may just bump into himself coming the other way!
Just pointing out the obvious?
Yours Aye.
Good point. He’s so wound up, he may not be aware of the oncoming traffic. . .
He is the on-coming traffic!
Aye.
Incoming!