Carrier Approach Crash

Rip

Holy S***. I fly gliders and it's easy to eplain. He pulled up to sharply to avoid the deck, stalled but while the wing was stalled he banked and the wing just dropped like a brick. It was the start of a spin.

a terrible video.

i hope the crew did not suffer.

It really was terrible. We'll never forget those who have gone higher than any of us while doing what they loved most.

I spent 20 years in Naval Aviation and this is by far the worst i have ever seen...

THe crew had the fires out in less then 15 min

the aircraft is a boeing T-2 (Guppy)

I was There on that day lost alot of friends. The Carrier is the USS Lexinton AVT-16 Stationed in Pensacola Fl. The Pilot tried to over copensate but was going to slow and stalled tring to miss the crane and rotated the right wing was inbeded in the island structure and the pilot and 8 others died..makes me cry just thinking about that day.

s***!
it was horrible!

Question...At 0:11 when the LSO yells for power, is that where the pilot's doomed? What would be the proper manuever out of that. I'm not a pilot or anything, but my best guess would be throttle up, stick down, and come left (rudder?) to get out of the stall. He/she seemed to pull back on the stick, concerned with "nosing" the deck. Just curious, thanx for any help.

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Oooh, I am sorry.
It had to be terrible black day for you. Loose a few good friends in one day.
Donīt want to be at your place.

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Yes You are correct. A Few good friends of mine were killed that Day
I was station on the USS Lexington Sept 1985 to July 1989

Thats an amazing video of a terrible accident. That being said, I'm loving all the armchair simpilot comments!

Horrible to see, really sad. RIP to all those who died in the crash. :..(

It is a T-2C Buckeye. I can tell from the shape.

Maybe I am not right but I think it is T-2C Buckeye, BuNo. 158876, USS Lexington, VT-19 unit of US Navy, crashed on 29th October 1989.
Very good crash database is placed at http://www.scramble.nl/sb.htm

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Looks to me to be a T-2 Buckeye. If it is the Lexington as someone said earlier, that is the type of trainer aircraft that was flown off that ship during that time. Really is terrible :(

SLICK

wow thats horrible

this is actually a student pilot qualing at the boat... his indexers were broken and stuck at onspeed and slightly fast. you hear the lso say, "work it on speed", because of this, the sna pulls the nose up slightly thinking that he was fast, but in reality, he was already slow. when he is waved off, he rotates again, going super slow.. he trys to recover but induces a cross controlled departure.

It looks like he took on a high angle of attack when he was waving off and came to a stall situation. The effects are opposite to what you want to do...
He tried his best to try and turn to the left, away from the aircraft and personell,
but due to the stall situation he rolled over to the right.

Stall situations low to the ground is best to avoided.

Pieter-Jan

f***
it's horrible.How can a plane turn like that?

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Terrible to hear :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I65j3j_nhZo

malakas...they ejected into the deck, they did not survive.

well... on flight simulator iv been practicing at landing an fa18 super hornet on the uss ronal ragen carrier....I can finally do it quite easily now.. after alot of practice :P.. its hard to do in a game.. imagin wat it is like in real life...

00:21 pilots ejected.i ve searched google but i found no info about tha crash

I think its grumman banshee

The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the most dangerous work place in the world, just imagine what it's like at night.

what the hell was that

Just a poor wave off with a severe stall at the end. The crash did not initiate the other aircrafts canopy's...rather they blew them off to egress the aircraft. I'll try to find the whole 5 minute video...Check