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Ancient-Mariner

1st Sep 2016 16:56

US Navy Radar Plane Overshoots Carrier Landing

Plane overshoots naval carrier landing - BBC News

Apparently the arrester cable snapped.

DaveReidUK

1st Sep 2016 17:05

Happened in March, according to the date on the video. Slow news day ?

Carbon Bootprint

1st Sep 2016 17:17

It's been under discussion for some time in the Mil forum.

Heathrow Harry

1st Sep 2016 17:20

slow news day at the Beeb

they ran the "Aurora alarm caused by lawnmower" story the other day about a week after it happned and was covered in the press.....................

sitigeltfel

1st Sep 2016 17:56

BBC News has only 5000 staff. With such a meagre number, the odd blooper will slip through. :rolleyes:

Old Boeing Driver

1st Sep 2016 19:04

Info

The crew recently received commendations for saving the aircraft.

Airbubba

1st Sep 2016 19:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Old Boeing Driver (Post 9493752)

The crew recently received commendations for saving the aircraft.

Yep, they even gave a medal to the NFO :eek::

Three Navy pilots awarded for quick reaction that saved Hawkeye in March aircraft carrier mishap | Local Military | pilotonline.com

Here's the accident report:

https://news.usni.org/wp-content/upl...D-JAGMAN_1.pdf

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