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F-22 jammed canopy blamed on loose screws
Screws used to mount parts in the cockpit jammed the canopy of an F-22 Raptor on April 10, locking a pilot inside one of the stealthy fighter jet at Langley Air Force Base in Tidewater, Va., according to USAF officials.
25-05-2006 - Langley AFB Va. -- The Air Force plans no official investigation into the incident, in which the pilot sat for nearly five hours while rescue crews cut open the canopy with a rotary saw.
An unofficial investigation concluded mounting screws “backed out” and caused the jam, they said.
Contractor and service officials called the chances of another jam “remote,” but Lockheed says it will install a fix — longer screws — and the Air Force will inspect all Raptor canopies. Neither the service nor the contractor could say how long it would to outfit all of the Raptors with the longer screws, nor how much it would cost.
They said the early estimates of the damage to the Raptor, about $182,000, was too high. It will likely cost closer to $83,000.
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