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To: WENDLE
Have you ever even seen the complex machine the cable is attached too aka the arresting gear? There is a lot more going on and many more factors and persons involved in landings and making decisions than the Captain. Whether a plane lands or not is usually the Air Boss decision. He can be given an order and if it is an incorrect one endangering crew and ship he can refuse it. Same with CHENG if Captain ordered she ship to exceed it's propulsion capacities. Did you know a plane can not launch without the Engineering Officer of the Watch permission? He too though below water line is privy to direction and speeds etc. His concern is steam pressure available.

I don't believe you even read the article. They found the cause. It had nothing to do with the issues you mention and was corrected. Now IF it was as you say there would have had to have been a massive coverup. The Air Boss would be raising bloody cane. The LSO would be raising cane. The flight deck crew as well. NOT TO MENTION IT IS ALL FILMED AND BROADCASTED TO THE CREW REAL TIME.

BTW if cables are checked each landing. A guy from V-2 I think runs across the FD checking the cable between landings.

This makes about as much since as John McCain caused a carrier fire. Even with filmed evidence and plane spotted in a position making it impossible the post show up on here all the time and No I do not like McCain.

48 posted on 07/10/2016 10:34:51 AM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: cva66snipe

When something breaks, tears up, fails, one of the first things any trouble shooter looks at is what changed? What caused the change? What if anything happened between the time something was working and failed? In this case they had Log Books and Logs to go by. To do most maintenance jobs on a mechanical or electrical piece of machinery on a ship it requires a Red Tag placing that equipment out of commission so it isn’t operated while being worked on. Often the paperwork obtaining, placing, and then removing the tag takes longer than the task itself.


49 posted on 07/10/2016 10:54:36 AM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: cva66snipe

Well you are probably right. You have great knowledge. Thanks for serving. Still make no sense to me. That cable exceeded test limits by thousands of pounds


50 posted on 07/10/2016 11:22:46 AM PDT by WENDLE (NEWT!!!)
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