The deck went foul (”F” on the video image) when the Landing Signal Officer hit the waveoff lights. The pilot never saw the flight deck crew workers — moving too fast for that. Not aircrew error or LSO error. The error was a miscommunication between the flight deck crew and the air boss — life in the fast lane, as it were, and the LSOs caught the problem in time; the flight deck crew work finishing fixing a problem that needed to be fixed. I am an old Navy pilot and landing signal officer, and I receive the monthly LSO School newsletter, which featured the story about this incident in their most recent newsletter.
Thanks for the informed explanation.
Is the LSO School newsletter as good as “Approach”? We used to fight for new issues of Approach when they showed up in the Ready Room.