I suppose it doesn’t really matter as long as the ship diversity training is current.
Super Hornet jet blown off carrier Harry S. Truman during rough weather
A Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet jet “blew overboard” and off the deployed aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman Friday due to intense winds and heavy rain in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said Sunday.
And I thought it sucked when the wind knocked my rifle off the table.
If it not being moved it’s tied down. I doubt flight operations were in progress during replenishment. No explanation how this could have occurred.
It was not chained down.
Probably caused by the male crew chief suffering menstrual cramps or something, welcome to the new woke navy.
While the current military certainly has politically motivated problems, why do people love to blame literally every issue on “the woke agenda”? I know you’re joking/being sarcastic, but we get the same type of response on literally every thread about the military. There were plenty of flusterclucks well before everything “went woke” and there undoubtedly will be more after civilization collapses and begins to be rebuilt.
Even the government is having those “tragic boating accidents” with their guns.
He could have been rushing to get a last minute abortion.
Reminder, we don’t need to ruin every thread with social/political commentary and thread drift. Sometimes, it’s okay to just talk about the topic. In this case, our resident naval aviators and their shipmates could offer commentary and perspective on deck procedures, how this stuff happens, what might follow. Some have complained about deterioration of signal:noise. Here’s an example of how to prevent that.
So, obviously, a person or persons were responsible for lashing the plane to the deck to prevent such an occurrence; I wonder what the punishment would be for failing to do so and losing a $65 million dollar plane? Dock you for $6.50 a paycheck for a 10 million years?
Not Navy, but with a lifetime around aviation… this is what’s called a Class A Mishap–loss of life, Permanent Total Disability injury or over $2.5mil in damage. There will be a JAG investigation to determine liability–here’s a JAG incident report for a Class-A involving an MH-60 for a sample.
https://www.jag.navy.mil/library/investigations/WILLIAM%20P%20LAWRENCE%20-%20HSC-6%20Helicopter.pdf
SOMEONE will probably be held responsible, probably the crew chief–until the pilot signs for the A/C prelaunch and then again once he signs it back after landing, the C/C is the “owner” of that aircraft and responsible for everything about it. This is the Air Force manual (with specific supplement for Air Mobility Command) for such investigations, Navy probably will be very similar. https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/amc/publication/afman91-223_amcsup/afman91-223_amcsup.pdf
Afterward you’d see a review board like the one Maverick had to go before in Top Gun, which determines if the person/persons involved have a future in aviation or the military at all; if there can be some salvage or things rise to the level of Court-Martial. There are a lot of steps in this that I’m hazy on myself, but this is basically the TLDR version.
Like Diamondback said, there will be a review board. It could have been something like the seas were unusually rough and a chain failed (metal fatigue). That one could have just happened to start a cascading failure and I really can’t imagine a commander sending people out to resecure an aircraft if the weather was that bad. That’s how you lose sailors overboard.
My life aboard carriers was limited to flying onboard vis COD to teach some classes, but I hung out on vulture’s row a good bit because I love naval aviation. The AC are anchored by several chains. Unless all of them failed (near impossible), my guess is that they had the AC unsecured and prepped for movement via tractor or something like that. I reached out to a buddy who was a B/N in A-6s, he said the AC is chained or moving, it doesn’t ‘just sit’ without being secured or running.
Duh, but why wasn’t it, especially in heavy weather.
1000 flights, 999 catapult launches… I assume there is video somewhere. As it is in the Med, which can be deep, is it worth the Chinese time to try to get it?
…especially considering they probably have the original blue prints, diagrams and any other information that they shouldn’t have on our technology, weapons or otherwise.
Why would they bother other than looking for weaknesses to exploit? Stuporbug was trash from the moment the Good Idea fairy knocked some McDonnellite’s head up with it.
Consider this quote from a “Legacy” Hornet pilot I saw in Flight Journal magazine many years ago after a competitive flyoff against SH: “We outran them, we outflew them and we ran them out of gas. I felt sorry for them.”
Only thing I know for sure is that when it was happening, anyone watching was doing a slow mo “Ooooooooh Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.”
That’s a long way from I forgot where I parked the jeep.
With all the “controlled chaos” (for lack of a better term) that happens on the deck of an aircraft carrier, I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. (No disrespect to our Navy.)
I suppose it could be akin to a very busy parking lot attendant who forgets to set the emergency brake, one time, on a hill, in a manual vehicle that subsequently rolls down the hill (and into 9,000 feet of ocean).