Originally Posted by
wiggy
MPN11
.I'm also trying to remember if a rapid weather change was a factor in the incident in Autumn 82 where an F-4 stab had bruising, or perhaps more correctly a cutting encounter, with the cable.
I heard the damaged F4 was the first one to land at Stanley. The RHAG was an American design, not the usual one the RAF used. Anyway the stop was a bit more abrupt than pilots may have been used to, and the the cable whipped up with the arrestor hook stricking the underside of the airframe. The aircraft spent the rest of its tour sitting on the pan near ATC, and its next flight was under a Chinook.