[Captain Peter Blood]

You’re making assumptions not based on facts.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You’re making assumptions not based on facts.

We don't need no stinking facts. 🤡

[bigdaddy45]

This is FreeRepublic. Just scream “DEI” whenever something goes wrong.

[cva66snipe]

That's life on the small city. Equipment can fail so can people. I had been onboard my ship a few months and we were off GITMO i think doing work ups. CNO, SECNAV, and possibly DEFSEC were onboard during night flight ops. A Tomcat came in too low and snapped the landing gear. Pilot and second seater punched out just before it went off the angle. They were unharmed. Another time I think someone operated a red tagged HB door at elevator 3 sending one Tomcat into another almost nose to nose.

The worst and tragic one we lost a S-3 and crew during night ops. It landed but something went bad wrong either on the arresting gear and it went on the angle and dangled there. The crew tried to pop out but by then the plane had one across the top of the water the other into the ships hull. No survivors. More happened but those are the ones I remember. I was ships company an A-Div snipe. I was below decks when these happened. One last tragic one I remember was during a re-spot a chalker was run over by a Tomcat and killed the guy. Ships go to sea and people die or get crippled. These events I mentioned were in the late 1970's.

[logi_cal869]

Indeed, especially if reports are accurate about arresting gear failure.