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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia's only aircraft carrier is damaged when floating dock securing it sinks
2018-10-31
[DailyMail]
  • The Admiral Kuznetsov was being repaired on a dock in northern Russia

  • The dock began to sink and a crane crashed onto its deck in early hours

  • One person is missing and four others are being treated for hypothermia

  • Investigators have opened a criminal investigation into the incident
Posted by:Skidmark

#5  Where I retired from: Preventative Maintenance is only seen as a Negative Entry on the Balance Books. After all, until something breaks and the wheels of production stop turning there is no fiscally sound reason to pay for fixing things right, Right?!? Bean Counters, gotta love 'em...
Posted by: magpie   2018-10-31 16:16  

#4  expect to have more maintenance ahead of you than planned.

"We don't have time for that now."
-- famous last, and occasionally posthumous, words
Posted by: SteveS   2018-10-31 14:57  

#3  When your preventive maintenance plan and/or facilities is crap, expect to have more maintenance ahead of you than planned.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-10-31 14:44  

#2  We shouldn't get too snide, in 1969 we sank a nuke sub, the USS Guitarro (SSN 665) at Mare Island pierside.
Posted by: magpie   2018-10-31 11:21  

#1  Well, its not like firing up a nuclear submarine in dock for overhaul, now is it?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-10-31 06:56  

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