The one falling off the carrier. That smacks of somebody not doing their job correctly. Landing in the water while trying to land on the carrier. Yeah you're trying to set a moving object down on a moving object. That is too small. The splash landings are rare but not unexpected.
I’m surprised it was an FA-18.
You’d think it would be far easier to accidentally bump into one of those invisible F35s and knock them overboard! 🤷🏼♂️
A lot of people really do not realize how exhausting a deployment can be. The last 25% you're running on the energy of anticipating seeing your family again. And when you get extended. Tank instantly drained.
For civilians who've never been in the military. Say you're like one of these ships, you're on a 6-month deployment. Imagine this. You're going to go to work and not be able to leave your office for 6 months. Then right before your 6 months is up. You're told it's going to be another month.
Yes, that’s pretty tough. Landing on an aircraft carrier is anything but routine. However, they plan for that. They train to keep going in the event of a non-capture. so it will be curious to see what the investigation shows. And I’m glad the pilots are OK.
Although Pete Hogsbreath sucks all of the oxygen out of the room and is ultimately accountable, nobody's talking about SECNAV John Phelan, who is a crony appointee and brings *zero* military experience in any capacity to the office he holds. His head should be the first on the chopping block.
They are reporting three different (& plausible) causes. On the face of it they are unrelated, although the root cause might be exhaustion due to a long deployment & low morale due to the incompetence & malice of the folks at the top.
During Trump's 1st term, the USS Fitzgerald was rammed in large part due to travelling at night at high speed with broken radar. How what president then?
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1) "Ground" handlers lost control of a plane they were moving when the carrier made as sudden evasive maneuver.
2) Something went wrong during landing (maybe they missed the wire) & the crew ejected.
@Weapons of The World
https://youtu.be/4MW8qV-HYUk
In the future this will just be waves of drones and missiles.
You’d think it would be far easier to accidentally bump into one of those invisible F35s and knock them overboard! 🤷🏼♂️
Saw somebody mentioning an extended tour of duty and exhaustion as potential factors in this.
FIRE THE DRUNK.