SINGAPORE: The crash of a Singapore F- 16 jet at Tengah Air Base last week was due to a malfunction of a component known as , pitch rate gyroscopes, the Ministry of Defence ( MINDEF ) said on Saturday ( May 18 ).
The journey power computer was able to access error-causing inputs from the recovered flight data recorder, according to the flight data recorder. In a press release, MINDEF claimed that this made the pilot able to control the aircraft at take-off.
All F- 16 fighter planes are fitted with four quite accelerometers.
The gyroscope failure was a continuous loss of the gyroscopes in the case of the Tengah Air Base accident on May 8; this is a very uncommon event, according to MINDEF.
It added that this is the , first such malfunction in the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s ( RSAF ) entire F- 16 fleet.
With the cause of the accident then identified, MINDEF said , Singapore’s F- 16 ships did begin flying.
” But as an added caution, each F- 16 ball level gyroscope may be checked and cleared before commencement of airlines”, it added.