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...telecast of the Chevron World Challenge, a golf tournament that raises money for Woods' foundation, it was: Tiger who? At the top of the program, NBC anchor Dan Hicks read a statement from Woods, who skipped the tournament, officially because of injuries sustained during his mysterious car crash. The statement thanked Woods' sponsors, and the infamous word transgressions was never uttered, not even once. The cameras then tailed the likes of Jim Furyk and Graeme McDowell around the course, the unacknowledged elephant squatting on every tee, blanketing every bunker shot. Awkward. (See the top 10 awkward moments...
...Pilot Captain Mark (Pitbull) McDowell, 26, and weapons-systems officer Captain Thomas (Lag) Gramith, 27, died in the first crash of an Air Force fighter in Afghanistan since the war began more than eight years ago. Coming near the end of a four-hour combat flight, the crash appears to have been the result of a series of steps, each insignificant in and of itself, but which in combination created a cascade of disaster...
...night of the crash, two F-15Es, which specialize in ground-attack missions, had spent close to three hours supporting grunts near the Pakistan border. But on their way back home to Bagram air base, they decided to practice high-angle strafing runs against 7-ft. dirt mounds in the middle of a dry lake bed. While they wouldn't actually fire their 20mm guns, the pilots had decided to practice one of the Air Force's most dangerous missions - diving toward the ground amid mountains on a dark night. Their heavy night-vision goggles, which work by amplifying existing...
...investigation cited the wrong altitude for the lake bed as the key reason for the crash (neither officer aboard the second F-15E was named in the probe) but spelled out several contributing factors. The crew was tired - wearing night-vision goggles increases eyestrain and fatigue - and crashed at 2:30 a.m., the sleepiest time in the human sleep cycle. Night-vision goggles reduce depth perception, especially when there's little ambient light and the ground is flat and barren. The crew "channelized" its attention on the attack run, ignoring warning signs that danger was imminent. Finally, "expectancy" played...
...four officers had easy access to the data that would have prevented the crash, "but tragically no one caught the mistake," the investigation concluded. McDowell, of Colorado Springs, and Gramith, of Eagan, Minn., "were dedicated warriors who lost their lives trying to maintain proficient at an attack necessary to save other Americans' lives on the ground." Their co-mingled remains are buried under a single headstone at Arlington National Cemetery...