DOCKET NO. SA-516 APPENDIX AA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD WASHINGTON, DC
INTERVIEW SUMMARY AW2 RUSSELL BALMER, AW3 DUANE OAKS, AW1 SHAWN BETAS, AW1 PHILLIP DUNN, LT. JOHN BROWN, AT1 JEFFERY HAYES, LT. TED SHEWMAN, AND AT3 MICHAEL AIKENS MARCH 24, 1997 (9 pages)
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Interview Summary
On March 24, 1997, the Navy P-3 crew was re interviewed individually, by the NTSB. Present for the interviews was Norm Wiemeyer, NTSB, and Rich Karnoweitz, FBI. The interviews were held at Brunswick Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Maine. The persons interviewed were: Russell Balmer Duane Oaks Shawn Betas Philip Dunn John Browne Jeffery Hayes Ted Schewman Michael Aikens No information was gained as a result individual recollections given during following persons had been transferred available for interview. Ray Ott Richard Van Deorstyne Bradley Baca Manuel Yarberry The new information which did come from this visit to Naval Air station Brunswick is a copy of the Air Wing flight operations for July 17, 1996, a copy of the squadron flight schedule for July 17, 1996, maintenance activity on the transponder which failed, on the witness aircraft, following departure, and SONOBOUYS carried and deployed during the P-3 training mission. According to both squadron types of sonobuoys AQS 36, the other systems on all of designed to find, localize, and air wing records, the aircraft carried three AQS 57B, AQS 53, and AQS 62. These systems, and the P-3 aircraft at NAS Brunswick are specifically and track submarines. of the re interviews to change thethe first set of interviews. The in normal'tour rotation and were not
During the course of the training mission flown on July 17, which passed over the scene of the TWA flight 800 loss while enroute to the practice area, the P-3 dropped 52 sonobuoys all of which were dropped a minimum of 200 miles south of the site of the loss, in the practice area, while working with the submarine. . During the visit to NAS Brunswick, it was determined that the Navy P-3 aircraft in use at this air station have no air-to-air weapons delivery capability and the aircraft in question carried no weapons or shapes. In addition the interviews provided information that when the transponder failed after takeoff a electronic repair technician, who is normal crew compliment, went through the in flight repair procedures on the transponder but could not restore it to operation. Following the flight; the unit was exchanged for a replacement through the normal Navy supply network.
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Operations Operations
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Officer, Officer,
Patrol Squadron TWEWTY SIX Commander Patrol wing FIVE
JULY 1996
OPERATIONS 16-18
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