Originally Posted by
trip
Not sure how this happened, we always had a brake rider in the cockpit, a chalk walker near each main, a tug driver and director and if I remember right permission was required from the bridge before moving aircraft? Maybe things have changed, glad nobody was killed or seriously hurt.
In extremis, CVN's can maneuver very severely and heel over pretty hard and pretty far. They have vastly more propulsive capability than any other ships in that size range.