- TFOA
TFOA is a
United States Navy acronym meaning "Things Falling Off Aircraft";cite book
last =Naval Safety Center, Naval Aviation Safety Center (U.S.)
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title =Mech
publisher =Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., distributor
date =1968
location =Original from the University of Michigan
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url =http://books.google.com/books?id=90FWAAAAMAAJ&q=TFOA+%22Things+Falling+Off+Aircraft%22+-wikipedia&dq=TFOA+%22Things+Falling+Off+Aircraft%22+-wikipedia&client=firefox-a&pgis=1
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id = ] occasionally pronounced as "toe-fa", similar to "tofu".Despite its somewhat humorous name, TFOA is a serious condition requiring the submission of a category 1
hazardous material report within twenty-four hours of the incident to the cognizant field authority (CFA) and type commander (TYCOM).Fact|date=June 2008An example of TFOA would be a panel falling off an
aircraft and then landing in someone's front yard, larger structural parts shed during a catastrophic mechanical failure that caused the aircraft to crash or anything else that departs the airframe that is not supposed to.The television show "NCIS", had an episode, The Curse, which revolved around a Navy Lieutenant being mummified inside of a 360 gallon cargo container, that was filed 8 years before as a TOFA.
ee also
* Blue ice
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