The press conference is too friendly and politically-correct.
As I suspected, the pretty boy-toy moved too slowly and ignored safety precautions as usual. None of his team was hurt except for him. He had 9 seconds to move his ass and he did not. He's not cut out to be an movie action hero with his clumsiness.
SINGAPORE — Actor Aloysius Pang was crushed when a gun barrel in the howitzer he was repairing was lowered and
he was “unable to get out of the way”, Chief of Army Goh Si Hou said on Thursday (Jan 24).
Corporal First Class (CFC) Pang and two teammates were trying to diagnose a suspected fault in the gun, when
he was caught between the end of the gun barrel and the cabin and sustained “crush injuries”, he told reporters at a media conference.
CFC Pang, 28, was part of a maintenance team called in to carry out repair work inside the self-propelled howitzer — an artillery gun mounted on an armoured chassis.
His teammates, a detachment commander and a fellow technician were with him in the cabin of the howitzer, but neither was injured.
The end of the gun barrel juts into the cabin when lowered, reducing room within the vehicle.
Technicians are trained to move out of the way and find a safe space when the barrel is lowered, Major-General Goh said.
“It is typically sufficient for our artillery operators as well as our technicians to be able to operate within this cabin,” he added.
It takes an average of nine to 10 seconds for the gun barrel to be lowered to its standby position, said Colonel Terry Tan, commander of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Combat Service Support Command.
CFC Pang, an operationally ready armament technician, was believed to be standing when the barrel struck him.
Major-General Goh was asked for more details on what happened, such as whether Pang was facing the gun barrel when he was struck and whether
he failed to move at all or moved too slowly, but he declined to go into the specifics, saying these details will be investigated by an independent Committee of Inquiry.
As part of standard operating procedures in lowering the gun barrel, a command is given to lower the barrel along with a verbal warning, and the commander also inspects the cabin visually before pushing a button, said Colonel Tan.
Major-General Goh said
the SAF is not aware of any obstructions that could have impeded CFC Pang’s movement.
CFC Pang died on Wednesday night, four days after the accident left him seriously injured in his chest and abdomen.
CFC Pang, who had been serving in the 268th Battalion Singapore Artillery, was treated at the Waikato Hospital, a regional trauma centre in Hamilton, New Zealand about 150km from the city of Auckland.
The accident occurred during Exercise Thunder Warrior, an artillery live-firing exercise, around 2pm on Saturday at the Waiouru Training Area.
After being treated at a battalion casualty station and a camp medical centre, CFC Pang was evacuated to Waikato Hospital, where he received three surgeries before ultimately succumbing to his injuries.
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