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F/A-18 Super Hornet assigned to USS Harry S. Truman blown overboard due to unexpected heavy weather
U. S. Navy ^
Posted on 07/10/2022 1:43:22 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: DannyTN
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posted on
07/10/2022 2:04:28 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: TigerClaws
Sue to not being tied down?
22
posted on
07/10/2022 2:04:59 PM PDT
by
stanne
To: maddog55
I remember the air crewmen putting as many as 20 chains on aircraft in heavy weather.
23
posted on
07/10/2022 2:05:19 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
To: TigerClaws
Was there a prophet on board fleeing from his assignment on shore?
24
posted on
07/10/2022 2:07:22 PM PDT
by
Zuriel
(Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
To: TigerClaws
If the ship got hit by a roque wave I could see it possibly taking out an airplane. I was stationed on aircraft carrier many moons ago. The ship got caught in some bad seas. We didn’t lose any aircraft, but the catwalks and antennas near the bow were all mangled...
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posted on
07/10/2022 2:07:39 PM PDT
by
EVO X
( )
To: 21twelve
“We were under cover a bit late (4:50?), but the front and a wall of rain hit at 5:03 pm!”
= = = = = = = = = = = = =
I’ve never experienced S.FL weather and its timekeeping. I have been in the mountains of NM during monsoon season (typically Aug/Sept) where you can very nearly set your watch to a storm rolling in right around 4pm every day!
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posted on
07/10/2022 2:07:53 PM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
To: 21twelve
Yeah. Exactly.
Now we know that weather imaging and RORSATs look for ship movements...at a minimum.
But they can also do weather - oddly enough
The meteorological conditions should have been known.
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posted on
07/10/2022 2:08:29 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
To: SaveFerris
28
posted on
07/10/2022 2:08:59 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: EVO X
Next Top gun sequel: Where my plane??
29
posted on
07/10/2022 2:16:33 PM PDT
by
Zuriel
(Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
To: TigerClaws
Stowed for sea in Davey Jones’ locker.
To: DannyTN
No, they use these
31
posted on
07/10/2022 2:19:55 PM PDT
by
Pollard
(If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
To: TigerClaws
Halsey's carriers had dozens of planes swept overboard during Typhoon Cobra; this jet may have been tied down exactly as prescribed.
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posted on
07/10/2022 2:20:02 PM PDT
by
Captain Walker
("Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
To: Pollard
Now that's funny.
33
posted on
07/10/2022 2:20:04 PM PDT
by
golux
To: Magnum44
Interesting. Seems like they could recoat it.
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posted on
07/10/2022 2:20:58 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: TigerClaws
The chaplain forgot the George S. Patton Weather Prayer.
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posted on
07/10/2022 2:23:51 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: TigerClaws
Did I miss the climate change story?
To: maddog55
No tie downs... Someone failed big time. My first guess was that they were moving the aircraft and screwed up, but another article says "No one was on board the plane, and no personnel were in the immediate vicinity when the aircraft blew off the ship’s deck". Clearly it was not properly chocked and chained. What a colossal screw up. Heads will roll.
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posted on
07/10/2022 2:26:25 PM PDT
by
ETCM
To: ETCM
Heads will roll.Only the straight white males heads.
38
posted on
07/10/2022 2:27:23 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: 21twelve
Lost during an UNREP? That’s three “mistakes”.
Losing a jet is bad. Losing it due to unexpected weather - bad chains or a failure of chains is bad. But does happen. Scheduling an UNREP (failure to stop an UNREP) while storms bad enough to wash an F18 off of the deck is unexcusable!
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posted on
07/10/2022 2:29:32 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
To: Pollard
My poor old tired eyes read CHINA stamped on that.
I think even with my poor old tired eyes, I see the problem...
40
posted on
07/10/2022 2:31:20 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If I had a buck for every girl that found me unattractive, they would eventually find me attractive!)
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