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What do you know about this incident, or about the type of jet that crashed?
Is it an older jet that should be retired?
Are military jets not held to the same standards as civilian airplanes - ie: no annual?
While Yoon states that he does not see the pilot at fault, do you think the pilot is responsible?
Do you view this incident as military negligence?
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I was in San Diego a few days before this happened, so it was something I followed pretty closely. You have most of the basic facts.
The jet is one of the newer models that replaced the F-14, A-6 and a few others. It's not the cutting edge anymore, but it's one of the newer models.
Military jets are held to higher standards and receive more maintenance than civilian planes. I'm sure we have some former military that can give us the exact ins and outs of fighter maintenance, but I do know that these things get are expected to perform better and more reliably than civilian planes.
I don't see how the pilot could be responsible. NO miliatry pilot would ever do something like this deliberately. If he did, he'd probably stay on board.
Negligence? No, not really. Negligence requires someone to deliberately fail. The fault for the crash probably lies with either the maintenance personnel or (more likely) the part manufacturer. No maintenance person is ever going to shortchange a pilot of a fighter jet - they're in that job for a reason. My guess, without having read anything about a cause of the crash, is that a part failed because it wasn't built to spec. That can be incredibly hard to detect since flaws in metal aren't exactly easily visible to the naked eye.