Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
Elsewhere, there were similar stories of planes sliding overboard during maneuvers of the ship. This isn’t new and has there been an authoritative report as to why the turn? A friend was on a carrier in the Atlantic off Norway during a storm. An A-7 chained down was swept was away be wave over the bow.
Not new, nature of the carrier aviation beast.
Also Truman has been on deployment for quite a while... ships get a fresh coat of non-skid prior to leaving but it definitely wears off with use, so there's a good chance the brakes were locked but the tires were sliding on bare steel coated with a nice sheen of various mx fluids, all of which are slippery.
My guess is that the injury was the brake rider frantically bailing out before the jet went over the edge.