VERY close call VIDEO: 2 US Navy seamen crossing the deck while F-18 lands...........

[Stratofreighter]

foul deck.wmv - YouTube :eek:

http://www.youtube.com/ (http://www.youtube.com/)
watch?v=CVbNRsDxPU4

More background information of this incident (happened on the 25th of September last month) at
Sailors won't face discipline for close call with fighter jet, Navy says - Navy - Stripes (http://www.stripes.com/news/navy/sailors-won-t-face-discipline-for-close-call-with-fighter-jet-navy-says-1.157165) .

Yep, only some brown trousers as punishment eventually... :E

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

Now you've gone and done it, standby for WEBF et al with another bloody carrier/harrier diatribe :ugh:

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Dodging dumb animals is routine elsewhere.
I'll bet there's been a fair few Viggen vs Moose, and that the African pilots can tell some hairy tales.

I've done Jet Provost vs deer (in the US)= JP go-around.
In the UK, it's just been Tornado 1, Bunny Rabbit (very) DisUnited 0.

p.s. RAF Leeming, cross main runway to transport cafe for breakfast after formal do's- now there was excitement waiting to happen. Maybe it did but we were all too far gone to notice...

[Ogre]

There has I believe been an instance of an RAAF Hawk suffering a Kangaroo strike, at the time there was a mod proposed by the Hawk support team of fitting 'roo bars and spotlights

[pohm1]

RAF Leeming, cross main runway to transport cafe for breakfast after formal do's- now there was excitement waiting to happen.

The 'Londonderry Lodge' if memory serves?

I gave more than a few blue light taxis to camp for those that became'geographically challenged' on the way back!

P1

[GreenKnight121]

So from the article... the "foul deck" call had already been made, and the Hornet waved off, BEFORE the sailors started across the deck.

And what were they doing that had them looking down instead of up and around? They were conducting a visual inspection of the "cross-deck pendant" (the wire the arresting hook catches hold of)... which they had been ordered to do.

The only thing done wrong here was that they didn't look to see if an aircraft was coming in before they started walking... they blindly trusted that with the "foul deck" light lit that no aircraft would be coming near the deck.

[SpazSinbad]

The relevant foul deck video story told by USN LSOs involved:

http://www.hrana.org/documents/PaddlesSafetyGram.pdf (0.5Mb)

&

Who's on First? 'OOPS': Oops « Neptunus Lex (http://www.neptunuslex.com/2011/10/07/oops-5/)

[AARON O'DICKYDIDO]

;)

Memories of the late 1960s after late night lock-ins at the Cross Keys, Bradenstoke and then negotiating the crash gate and crossing the airfield to get back to the billet. What joy!

[ShyTorque]

Have they never heard of the Sea Green Cross Code? :p

[LowObservable]

What the US Navy needs:

http://www.scarysquirrel.org/tufty/tuftyclub/badge2.gif

[SpazSinbad]

Is that an RAF QFI Badge?

[diginagain]

The RAF Regt have one for members of The Rufty Tufty Club.