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Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Youtube ^ | 7-8-2016

Posted on 07/09/2016 8:30:40 AM PDT by Snickering Hound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-EHwYOfY94

Hope the pilot has some extra underwear around.


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To: Sequoyah101

lucky the deck was pitching up, had it been pitching down, no joy.


41 posted on 07/09/2016 11:10:26 AM PDT by Fhios (The U.S needs Hillary like a fish needs a bicycle.)
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To: FreedomPoster
Love the swearing in requirement. So no DemonRatz are allowed to serve in any capacity?

Read "Phantoms over Viet Nam" years ago, great book.

42 posted on 07/09/2016 11:51:27 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Snickering Hound

If I ever have to fly I want that guy as my pilot!


43 posted on 07/09/2016 12:11:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Daffynition

“Working” on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the most dangerous job in the world!

The fact that the CDP (Cross Deck Pendant) parted was a significant factor in causing this to be a non-fatal accident. Had the purchase cable parted down in the arresting gear engine room, the cable (my memory is that each purchase cable is 1000 feet long) could have whipped all the way to bow of the ship and back to the sterm, lethally! Should the purchase cable part, there really is no safe place on the flight deck, except behind a heavy piece of equipment like a fire truck or the “Tilly.”

I never have (Thank God!) personally experienced a parted CDP or purchase cable, but I have seen several videos of both types of incidents. A FRiend of mine, CO of an A-6 squadron lost both legs in just such an accident.

As an LSO, we were exposed to this and a bunch of other hazards that could ruin your day during (there is no such thing as) “routine” carrier operations, and had to be very much always alert to such events!


44 posted on 07/09/2016 3:23:44 PM PDT by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: Taxman

Darling SG .... I am so grateful you and your fellow pilots were out there, protecting our way of life.

Thank you and God Bless & Smooches!


45 posted on 07/09/2016 4:52:01 PM PDT by Daffynition (Who will stop her?"We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: Taxman

As a former V-2 Division Officer I suspect the CDP parted due to in-flight engagement.


46 posted on 07/09/2016 5:27:17 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

Thank you for your service! What ship?

I was V-3 in Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) FRom July 1970 - November 1972, and stood regular LSO watches. Prior to that tour, I was the RVAW-110 LSO and an E-1-B/E2-A/B Flight Instructor.

I found several articles about this incident to be of interest. The most pertinent indicated that it was some sort of human error to do with the CROV setting. There is a thumbnail explanation which to my untutored eyes seems reasonable at https://m.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/4rx5uu/cable_snaps_on_uss_eisenhower_during_landing/

As a former V-2 Division Officer, you might enjoy reading it.


47 posted on 07/09/2016 8:33:21 PM PDT by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: Daffynition

Thank you, Sweetie.

I just could not believe that they paid me to land on aircraft carriers!

Smooches backatcha!


48 posted on 07/09/2016 8:36:15 PM PDT by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: Jacquerie

Here is a link to the complete, though redacted, accident report: https://lintvwavy.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/redacted-jagman_1.pdf


49 posted on 07/09/2016 9:10:29 PM PDT by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: Jacquerie

As a former V-2 Division Officer...
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I served in V-2 Cats on CVA-42 (FDR), in the early ‘60s. From your comments here, I’m guessing you were in AG.

A boyhood friend of mine was in AG on the Constellation during, I think, it’s shakedown cruise. AG cable broke and injured many. Friend had a badly broken leg.

Thanks to you and others on this thread for your service!


50 posted on 07/10/2016 12:35:35 AM PDT by octex
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To: Taxman; octex

Thank you very much. I can see in my mind’s eye the AG equipment below decks and what happened. But, after thirty years I cannot recall the name of the parts that were incorrectly serviced!

I had Catapults and Arresting Gear on the Saratoga in the late 80s, and 210 or so Aviation Boatswain Mates of my very own. As far as I’m concerned, there is no better bunch of sailors. They work in incredibly dirty, hot, cold, noisy, stressful conditions night and day, seven days a week. If OSHA was allowed to inspect our ships, they’d close the Navy down. Given the complexity and enormous loads endured by launch and recovery equipment, it is something of miracle there aren’t a LOT more mishaps. I can still remember the day I launched and recovered an A-3 at 78,000 lbs. It took four of my biggest bos’ns to attach the bridle to that beast.

Tip your hat to the Aviation Bos’n!

Oh, and LSOs too.

A shipmate of mine from the late 70s defined teamwork as entrusting your life to people you’ll never meet. He’s right. I’m just glad that no one was killed on the Ike, and hope the injuries are not permanent.

On the downside, heads will roll over the improperly maintained arresting gear engine.


51 posted on 07/10/2016 2:46:03 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

Thank you again for your service!

Yes, well, I had to do some research myself. I’ve always been interested in the mechanics of what we did, and given the chance, I’ll spend more time than I really should checking stuff out.

OTOH, I am retired, you know! So I do have the time to check stuff out. It is the remembering part that is becoming more difficult.

Every (well, ALMOST every!) man and woman serving in an aircraft carrier is important to the mission. HST, V-2 is the lifeblood of a carrier: no bombs or strafe get to the target unless we can shootem and catchem! With lives on the line every launch and recovery, it is one of the toughest and most demanding jobs in the Naval Service.

Roger the OSHA observation!

My V-3 Division was about 1/3 the size of your V-2; V-3 was “The Chief and I!” And 70 or so Enlisted men, most of them non-rated Blue Shirts — I had three E-6s, four E-5s, and a handful of E-4s. During cruise, we had several well-deserved promotions.

After we got rid of the deadwood (LBJ’s experiment with 100,000 teenagers who could not pass the AFQT with a high enough score to enlist, much less qualify for an “A” school or were “forgiven” druggies) on the way to Hawaii, the Division was tight, and they were great troops.

I agree with you that ABs are special — when I left Pawtucket, they made me an honorary AB, and I have the “I’ve been there” belt buckle to prove it — 1/2 AB wings, 1/2 Naval Aviator wings!

I like your FRiend’s definition of teamwork. It is for damn sure that aircraft carriers cannot work without some extraordinary teamwork at all levels.

The Constant Runout Valve caused the problem — faulty maintenance caused not enough restriction; got full-length ram travel; “two-blocked” the rams and the CDP parted. Better the CDP than the purchase cable!

Some heads already rolled, I’d wager, and we are lucky that no one was killed.

Parenthetically, we discovered when I was flying the E-1B that it flew better in ground effect with the pilot’s overhead hatches open!

The E-2 co-pilot had the presence of mind to open his hatch while engaged in lowering the flaps to 30; raising the gear and flaps and sucking his seat pan up tight! Talk about a high pucker factor!

And, I believe the extreme aft fuselage got wet!


52 posted on 07/10/2016 11:35:53 AM PDT by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: Taxman

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Constant Runout Valve - Yes!

Air Department sailors are the best.


53 posted on 07/10/2016 12:22:26 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

Roger that!


54 posted on 07/10/2016 1:31:10 PM PDT by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: EternalVigilance

Would take a while to clear the deck; all landing ops halted.

They landed at NS Norfolk instead.


55 posted on 07/12/2016 7:25:09 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: ealgeone

#4, apparently.

http://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/navy-human-error-to-blame-for-march-cable-break-aboard/article_c4675c54-6cdc-5882-867a-68f961145c9d.html


56 posted on 07/12/2016 7:26:38 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: Fred Hayek

This happened several months ago, hitting the news again because the USN just released their report.

Human error in resetting landing pendant machinery / training

http://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/navy-human-error-to-blame-for-march-cable-break-aboard/article_c4675c54-6cdc-5882-867a-68f961145c9d.html


57 posted on 07/12/2016 8:08:40 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: Ready4Freddy

If they were that close to a shore base, I’m sure it was a relief.


58 posted on 07/12/2016 11:22:32 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Ready4Freddy

This happened several months ago, hitting the news again because the USN just released their report.
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I was on the FDR (CVA-42) on our cruise in the Med in ‘61-’62. Another carrier there had a plane slam into the fantail, resulting in fatalities. The event wasn’t made public until many months later. It was the Cold War and neither side wanted to admit a weakness.

With today’s social media and cell phones, it would have been known to everyone right afterward.


59 posted on 07/16/2016 3:51:28 AM PDT by octex
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To: octex

http://www.ussblockisland.org/Beta/Welcome.html

Same in WW2.

My uncle was on the USS Block Island(CVE-21), torpedoed and sunk in May, 1944 in the Atlantic. The information was not released to the public until one year later in May, 1945, after the war in Europe was already over.

My uncle was rescued from the Atlantic and then served on the new USS Block Island (CVE-106) in the Pacific.


60 posted on 07/16/2016 4:10:25 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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