If she wasn’t ready, don’t you think she would have crashed sometime before her 59th carrier landing? 1240 hours in a fighter airframe is a helluva lot of flight time.
Not good to post that - it will upset the narrative of the ignorant.
Actually, if you look at her record it appears she was far more lucky than good.
One of the worst things you can do to a person is keep them from ever realizing that they failed so that they never feel motivated to learn from their mistakes.
If you want someone to be good you have to constantly keep the need to improve in front of them without destroying their ability to develop confidence.
Too much poorly justified success breeds arrogance and diminishes ability. And that is often deadly.
You are getting duped by the naval cover=up/propaganda. She had 1240 career flight hours, but only 217 in an F-14 and died only 60 days after being carrier qualified. She received the lowest scores of her entire training class, and was rushed through to promote Clinton’s agenda.
Watch the video on post 40.
A couple of facts.
She was on a watch list due to poor grading of her carrier landings. ALL carrier landings are graded. Her’s were considered poor enough to get her on the watch list.
There was an established procedure for engine stalls all F-14 pilots were required to memorize. She did not follow that procedure.
It was demonstrated multiple times in simulator recreations of the event that if the procedure had been followed, she would have recovered to a stable flight.
Bottom line is she was on the low end of acceptable piloting skills for an F-14 pilot, or bellow acceptable and was allowed to stay for political consideration, and she didn’t follow procedure.
It was entirely her fault that she crached. But those who pusher her into a role she shouldn’t have been in bear a big part of the responsibility as well.