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Article: Aircraft investigations: what's up with that 60-minute phone report?(WORK ZONE: REDUCING MISHAPS BY 50%)
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- July 1, 2005
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Just as you are putting the finishing touches on your CNO Aviation Safety Award submission, the duty officer calls and you hear those words you have been dreading since completing ASO school, "One of our aircraft just crashed!"
You race to the duty office with your mishap binder and begin the checklist. One of those items is a phone report to the Naval Safety Center. You've already notified everyone in your chain of command; why and what does the Naval Safety Center need to know in the first hour anyway?
You call the Naval Safety Center (dial 757-444-3520 and punch 1 or dial 757-444-2929) while everyone you have notified up to this point is asking a ...