Posted on 07/10/2022 1:43:22 PM PDT by TigerClaws
NAPLES, Italy -- On July 8, 2022, an F/A-18 Super Hornet assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1, embarked aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), blew overboard due to unexpected heavy weather in the Mediterranean Sea. The carrier was conducting a replenishment-at-sea, which was safely terminated through established procedures. All personnel aboard the ship are accounted for.
One Sailor received minor injuries while conducting operations during the unexpected heavy weather. The Sailor is in stable condition and expected to make a full recovery.
USS Harry S. Truman and embarked aircraft remain full mission capable.
Details and the cause of the incident are under investigation.
You can resurface it. We did twice in eight and a half months. We had over 12000 traps during that time in the work up to the 91 war and the two months after. But it takes a few days to do that, you have have to bead blast the deck, then apply the new non-skid and let it dry. Not like just grabbing a paint brush and paint can.
The first time we resurfaced was following an E2 skidding into a tomcat after landing and just taxiing to spot. Started sliding with locked brakes and didn’t stop until after the prop took the nose and radar off the the F-14 while the alert crew was sitting in it. You get busy prepping for war, not enough time for maintenance, and things sometimes just happen.
(Heads will roll)
My guess too.
Do I need to go to Home Depot and buy them a roll of cable?
A lady pilot earlier this year did this:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4543260/us-navy-f35-jet-south-china-sea/
Think this whole military is equipped to do anything other than surrender?
Pilot forgot to set the parking brake.
They don’t understand lift?
....what you call “rope” is actually “line” while rope is technically made of various strands of metals..and one uses a fid to splice lines, while a marlinspike is used to work with wire ropes and cables.....
U.S.Navy/Naval Reserve
1961 - 1967 .....
There is much more than just one person’s head on the chopping block. Probably will include the ship’s captain, or whatever his/her/its title is.
But who knows, with today’s military they may all sit in a circle and have an encounter group.
🎵 Tie me Super Hornet down, mates, tie me Super Hornet down! 🎵
Or over excited...
The article you link to describes the pilot in the masculine tense.
There should be no "unexpected" weather for a US military ship/airplane/truck/base. Anyone else can log onto the internet and find out what the weather is, and is going to be in the near future. Or you could just look around and see what was likely to happen next.
An aircraft carrier must have its own weather sensors and somebody paying attention to the weather, like even a small airport.
The only reason it could be "unexpected" is that everyone was asleep or simply not doing their jobs.
Crap, that was expensive.
It was a woman. Trust me.
Never trust the MSM.
Lady pilot did it. This was earlier this year.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FHwMCfgBZ5o
1) FWIW, the below link is a discussion of the USS Forrestal fire and it’s causes. I lived around artillery munitions long enough to give this credence.
2) More generally, military operations and training are inherently difficult and dangerous. The remarkable thing is not that an expensive airplane fell off a deck in heavy weather, but that it does not happen more often. We preach safety now due to the high numbers of people who died and equipment lost from accidents, particularly since mechanization of the military and naval forces started prior to the First World War.
There will always be “unexpected” weather. While we know more about weather now, our understanding of all the variables that impact weather is wafer thin. Despite our technology, even the best forecaster will miss something, and we will get slammed when we least expect it.
Don’t get me started on the lack of understanding about climate.
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