February 3, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Kick the tires and light the fires or risk starting a 24M USD fire
F-16 low tire pressure ends up costing over $24M USD
The cause of the crash was determined to be an underinflated nose-gear tire
Source
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=52108
I would think the ground crew and the pilot would be in the doghouse or worse. I would think the pilot would also be partly to blame for not noticing it on the preflight inspection / walk around.
Like they say.
“Kick the tires and light the fires”
In other words you’re supposed to check the tire pressure and condition before doing a start up.