F-14 CV Approach Crash

Why did she break away to the left side, when her left engine was dead? Why not break to the right side?

What a tragedy!

SMOOTHOPR8R is anything but smooth. More like brutally retarded. Compared with all the errors MEN have made over the years, you think this tragic accident is a template for all women! I could outfly you any day you sorry sack of crap. Good luck getting some tail without flashing a credit card.

I think women are great pilots but carrier aviation is not even close to being a pilot, The main thing I see in women is they don't listen on the boat, gear up gear up, this women never even tried to put her gear up she was too busy trying to wrangle a out of control cat, men have accidents all the time but men punch out when the time is right, She didn't listen to any command they gave her and what looked like just panic, there is a reason more men fly than women call it sexest or whatever you want but its the truth and its factual

oeps first have to read the comments sorry !

did sombody survive ??? hard to see

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repairing:
I mean that its So False to said that the mens are the best & womens are worst.

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well bro just think.
in USN there are about of 3292 pilot & 24 of them are women. and just Ms.megan slick is F-14 rider .so everyone know that the US Air force in Full of female pilot.but navy no.because the pilot in navy must be 100 time more Astute & clever than the Air force Pilot. on thing caused US Air force pilots to be called Cowboys is this.Female Pilots.
yes there are women that be so astute so in front mens For Aviation I should said there are a little number of them.see if suddenly a pilot understand that the SAM has been launched at him so the 95 percent of men are make decision on what they should do rapidly but for women it s less than 8.I mean that it's Fault that we said the men are better than women. there many things that the womens do it better than mens.
totally, the mens are better for aviation than womens .dont forget I said Totally.

Engine failure, my backside. Kara was babied through flight school, babied through carrier quals, and her carrier landing grades were poor enough to warrant disqualification. She never had any business being at the controls of an F-14 and the end-result was only a matter of time.

Not a very smart thing to try with an F-14 A....

So sad...

Here's what happened (taken from Wiki):

On October 25, 1994 Hultgreen was killed when her F-14 crashed on approach to the USS Abraham Lincoln off of San Diego after a routine mission. Finding herself too high, Hultgreen attempted to correct her approach by yawing the aircraft to induce a sideslip in order to lose altitude. In combination with an engine fault, this led to the left-hand engine suffering a "compressor stall" and losing power as air was no longer flowing straight into it. The F-14 flight manual warns against sideslips at any time for this reason.

After aborting the approach Hultgreen selected full afterburner on the remaining engine. The engines on the F-14 are mounted far apart and Hultgreen needed full opposite rudder to compensate for the off-centre thrust. Whilst distracted by this, the proximity of the sea, and the engine failure, she raised the nose of the aircraft too far as she tried to climb away resulting in an unrecoverable stall and rapid wing-drop to the left. The Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) in the rear seat initiated ejection for himself and Hultgreen as soon as it was apparent the aircraft was becoming uncontrollable. First in the automated ejection sequence, the RIO survived. However, by the time Hultgreen's seat fired 0.4s later, the plane had rolled past the horizontal, and she was ejected downward into the water, killing her instantly. The entire event unfolded in less than twenty seconds.

On November 12, 19 days after the crash, the Navy salvaged the plane and recovered her body, still strapped into the ejection seat, in a $100,000 operation. The wreckage was in 3,700 feet of water. She was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.

first of all it was the RIO who ejected.

Cause of the crash human error.

The aircraft was on a single engine approach and she was given the wave off single

She turned too sharply, the jet stalled and she crashed

She ejected too late...

A very sad sight.

Well...you may just check the Thunderbirds pilots for the 2006 season and find out that one of them is a female pilot (http://www.thunderbirds.acc.af.mil/06officerhtms/06officers3.htm) who was an Instructor on the F-15E at Lakeneath AB, 48th FW...so she must be the same level as all the others "male" pilots.

Women can't drive. So I guess it's the same with flying.

Hi there! Just check the link I've provided in the video description; anyway, the accident report states a combination of left engine failure and pilot mistake.

Why the aircraft crash? Human error? engine failure? what?