RQ-4 Crash Probe Faults Operational Procedures

Credit: RQ-4: USAF
U.S. Air Force accident investigators probing a crash of a Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk have faulted procedures that undermined the quadruplex redundancy design of the unmanned aircraft system’s (UAS) onboard navigation system. The findings by the Air Investigation Board (AIB), released by Air...

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