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Postby Aceyone » Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:39 pm

This shows the danger of carrier operations




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRKN8DCYyrE&feature=related
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Re: Cable snap

Postby Mayfly » Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:45 pm

I've heard 2 stories on this the first the guy in the green shirt lost his leg the second he was killed - not sure what the truth is - but the other who jumped was very lucky!
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Re: Cable snap

Postby Thumper » Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:51 pm

I feel a bit sick now knowing that someone might have been killed. Terrible accident.
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Re: Cable snap

Postby Sooty655 » Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:45 pm

What happened to the crew? That ejection didn't look very clean. :(
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Re: Cable snap

Postby Thumper » Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:52 pm

I was gonna ask it but didn't really want to know the answer, but seeing as you mentioned it, it looked to me like the ejectee in shot hit the canopy on his way out?
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Re: Cable snap

Postby Sooty655 » Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:56 pm

Thumper wrote:I was gonna ask it but didn't really want to know the answer, but seeing as you mentioned it, it looked to me like the ejectee in shot hit the canopy on his way out?

Yeah, that's how it looked to me too. :(
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Re: Cable snap

Postby Thumper » Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:03 pm

This is all I can find at the moment:

On 11 September while the ship was operating off the coast of Virginia, an arresting wire parted while an F/A-18 was landing. As the wire parted, it snapped back violently across the deck, injuring eleven crewmen, two critically (the wire nearly hit an additional crew member but he jumped above the wire in time). The sailors, who were part of the ship's company, VAW-120 and VFA-106 had to be medically evacuated from the ship but all survived the mishap. The aircraft was lost over the side but the pilot was able to eject safely. Footage of the mishap was later used in a National Geographic special about the ship that was being filmed at the time.
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Re: Cable snap

Postby Mayfly » Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:06 pm

Oh its good no-one was killed then.
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Re: Cable snap

Postby Olicat » Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:13 pm

Upon watching it closely it looks as if the first person landed face first, although it looks like he survived as afterwards he moves. But it's still enough to put me off wanting to be on deck when an aircraft traps.
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Re: Cable snap

Postby Nickolas » Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:36 am

So what have we learned here then...........Don't take your eyes off the cable........
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Re: Cable snap

Postby Xplumberlives » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:04 am

Nickolas wrote:So what have we learned here then...........Don't take your eyes off the cable........



No we have learned NOT TO LAND ON MOVING POSTAGE STAMPS IN THE OCEAN! ;)
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