LiveLeak.com - T-2 Crash

-Fatty

 

That is horrible.

RIP

 

I want to say that's about ten yrs old. Not sure tho.

 

I'm fairly certain that PLAT video was shown during my CQ lectures in the training command in August, 2000. Definitely not a new video. If I remember correctly it was determined the student had an AOA failure that made him keep pulling back to capture 'on speed' AOA on the waveoff which resulted in the eventual stall and adverse yaw departure. Any LSO's chime in here if I'm out to lunch or incorrect.

 

That video is probably one of the most famous aircraft carrier crashes around! As BDGERJMN said - it is shown to every CQ class. The mishap took place in October 1989 on the USS Lexington (CV-16). I knew some of the guys who were sitting in the T-2Cs on deck refueling or starting up. You can see them blowing their canopies right after the crash. A sad side note - the SNA tried to get out of the airplane right before he hit the deck. You can see his ejection.
A few years later in 1992 the carrier was retired and spent some time in Pensacola (where it was stationed while it was the training carrier) and eventually moved to Corpus Christi. The USS Forrestal took it's place as the dedicated training carrier one time (May '92) but I landed on it and I must have broken it because it was never used for CQ again
PS - there aren't anymore T-2Cs flying in the training command that I am aware of in the Navy. VT-86 got rid of the last of them some months ago and transitioned completely to the T-45 Goshawks.

USMCFLYR

 

USMCFLYR...here is another I am sure you will remember. I won't recount the whole story to avoid obvious trouble.

YouTube - F14 Crash at Sea

 

A fellow squadronmate was on the same CQ det during that mishap.
I went to flight training with the infamous Pilot B. She was a couple of classes behind me (91-93 timeframe)

USMCFLYR

 

His brother was killed in the Pentagon on 9/11.

 

That is very sad. That family has been through a lot of heart ache.

USMCFLYR