PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Gannet AEW3's
Thread: Gannet AEW3's
View Single Post
Old 31st Aug 2015, 22:54
  #17 (permalink)  
CharlieOneSix
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In the shadows
Age: 79
Posts: 290
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I was part of the Wessex night planeguard crew on the Ark when this Gannet landed on and went down the deck in a shower of sparks and straight over the front of the angled deck into the sea - he'd snapped his nosewheel leg and missed the wires as a result. It was a rough night and the deck was pitching a lot. Gannet Driver will know the crew - who all got out okay. Pilot MJ and observers MR and MC. 10 May 1966.
CharlieOneSix is offline