This Has To Be One Of The Most Terrifying Carrier Landing Videos Ever

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The video below, shot from both the flight-deck’s PLAT camera and from the
carrier’s island super-structure, depicts a March 18 landing mishap in
terrifying fashion. The event occurred aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
while operating off the eastern seaboard.

Upon landing, the E-2C Hawkeye caught one of the cross-deck pendants, more
commonly known as “wires” or “cables.” The cable then came loose from its port
side seating and whipped through the air toward the carrier’s superstructure.
Eight of the Eisenhower’s crew were injured in the incident, some of them very
seriously. Amazingly, nobody was killed.

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

Although the E-2 Hawkeye is slowed as it advanced down the carrier’s landing
area, it was nowhere near stopping. As a result, the aircraft careened off the
angled deck, diving toward the ocean below. Amazingly, the crew was able to get
the aircraft back into the air—even after disappearing entirely from view.

There was zero margin for survival in this scenario, and according to one sailor
quoted by the Navy Times "It (the E-2) came back, but it had friggin' salt water
on the bottom of it!”







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