Originally Posted by
76fan
Later, or the following year, like the above, I also got airborne at night from a DLG with the tail lashing still attached. It gave us a rather unexpected sharp pitch nose up but as I held it in the hover above the deck I was relieved, after a short delay, to hear that although we had got airborne with the nylon lashing attached it was not locked and had pulled free. Nobody's fault, just one of those things where the FDO had seen the lashing number clear away from the aircraft and believed the aircraft to be free. I guess we were lucky. That's the nature of accidents/incidents.
WTF? Of course it was someone's fault, yours for not doing a walk around for starters!