"BRING ME MY BROWN PANTS!"

[Rancho Roy 259]

Yikes.........

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/r-EHwYOfY94

[Yusta B. 1,301]

That's a serious pucker factor !!

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 1,653]

do all those flashing "F"s mean what I think they mean ?

 

 

 

[Rooster Ron Wayne 1,453]

You would not have to bring me my brown pants.

Any pants I had on WOULD TURN BROWN :-)

[Griff 1,242]

Not to mention the 8 sailors injured in this incident. Yep, congrats on having good reactions, as those saved you and your crew from a swim, the loss of an expensive flying machine. Cables have broke before...

[Paladin Gun For Hire 33]

Been there, done that, not a fun time.

[Dorado 395]

That's why when they land they immediately go to full throttle. Perfect example.

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 1,671]

The tale is apocryphal and I got this third hand.

Similar incident, only a Tomcat on landing.

Again -- cable broke -- the jet left the end of the deck and, just like this Orion, disappeared.

Just like this one, after about a year and a half, it reappeared, but it was low enough the engines were blasting twin furrows in the water.

Once it got some altitude -- maybe fifteen feet -- the pilot's voice came over the comm.

"Thank you, God, I've got it from here."

[Trailrider #896 1,508]

"Bolter! Bolter! Bolter!" Hope nobody on the deck crew was too badly injured. Getting hit with the flying ends could cause immediate amputation...of legs or your head! :o

[Shooting Bull 1,877]

And THAT boys and girls is one of the many reasons I joined the Air Force. Thank God for all you soldiers, sailors and Marines for doing the jobs that would leave every pair of pants I own brown. You have my never ending respect and admiration.

[Blackey Cole 83]

Sharks and sleeping conditions were my reasoning

[Hoss 990]

I think I would trade most everything I own except my SASS guns to fly on/off a carrier. We have the USS Lexington as a museum about 2 miles from my house. I go for a tour every couple of years, and eyeball it every time I drive past thinking of what it must be like to do carrier ops.

[Hurricane Deck 100366 9]

Perfect example of why a pilot never says quit... always fly it to the ground (or water) but NEVER EVER EVER stop trying to save your aircraft or the butts it carries. EVER.

 

 

 

EVER.