Taken out by arresting wire.

[kowalityjesus]

thats why I love the military. They didn't go over and coddle the people who tripped, they can take a fucking hit.

[9Apilot]

"Watch the retract!"

[Hortonjosue]

esa mamada que??

[usnpilot231]

@ TTDMFfreaknew If I recall I never said I was an expert. Nice putting words in my mouth.

[majfunkmeister]

they work just like ants its amazing

[usnpilot231]

I love how everyone on Youtube is an "expert" and knows everything about the subject at hand.

[TTDMFfreaknew]

@usnpilot231 And your user name is "usnpilot231". Wanna-be aviator who plays sims and thinks he's the real deal>you.

[sphinxrising58]

@usnpilot231 I know a lot of pilots from the navy, never ever heard one of them call themself a pilot, they call themselves " aviators ", lol.

[usnpilot231]

@sphinxrising58 "aviator" was taken for youtube name ;)

[sphinxrising58]

@usnpilot231 Yeah, I see your poor excuse for your lie.

[usnpilot231]

@sphinxrising58 that's cute. Since when did I say I was an expert? Never said that.

[FuriousPumpkin]

wow I thought this was going to be the wire snapping and cutting some guys in half thank god.

[jsmassacre]

@FuriousPumpkin You clicked on it anyway! rofl

[FuriousPumpkin]

@jsmassacre well of course hahaha

[glawood]

Were they reprimanded?

[NoPancakeMixxx]

The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the most dangerous place on the planet, and this video shows one of the many reasons why.

[JasonStogia]

Did he died?

[willsonnss]

do they need a armour boot

[w5cdt]

Procedures!



[MrQuantumlotus]

what kind of damage are we talking about here? broken bones, bruises, scratches, or all of the above and more? just wondering how serious it would be to get pwnd by one of those things

[iamidiotic]

@MrQuantumlotus While this obviously wasn't as severe as the example I'm about to share with you, but a cable snapped as a Hornet landed on the deck on the USS George Washington, injuring eleven (broken legs, etc). They had to be evacuated off the ship, and that plane was lost.

[SinerAthin]

@MrQuantumlotus

Most likely (on this video) a couple bruisiers. Or, if the wire had a real hit, a broken bone.

From the clip here, it seems more like the wire tripped him, but due to the great force within it, it probably was equal to having your leg literally hammered.

[moparnutjim]

I bet the air boss raised holy hell. As an LSE, we used to get a laugh by just saying "port catwalk" while recovering aircraft just to hear air boss say "get out of the catwalk, you got a death wish" lol

[322978743]

@wwwtotalitaerde thumbs down this guy if you think he's making crap up

[aksa1976]

Every time I had to cross the deck, I got serious pucker factor!

[Cass48]

Never cross the foul line when you're recovering aircraft. Even if that was the last plane to recover they should not have moved until the Air Boss gave the ok.

[MrAviator81]

Damn Airframers!!!

[securityv12]

Dont they usually announce it On the ship, when the Wire is going back into Position to let the crew know?

[backrotor1]

@securityv12 No. It is assumed. After the aircraft is caught and the hook is raised, a signal is given to retract the wire. Once the wire is back in place and the arresting gear is in "battery," the Arresting Gear Officer (AGO) will let folks that need to cross an opportunity to cross if there is time and all other safety requirements have been met.

[jimcga45]

Clear deck refers to launch and recovery of aircraft and has nothing to do with support operations going on topside.

The SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) requires those working on the flight deck to:

1. Get their head out of their ass.

2.Put their eyes on what is going on around them.

ABE "A" school Lakehurst NJ. Day 1. First thing out of instructors mouth was "you have a 15 second life expectancy on the flight deck once flight ops begin". A few didn't last that long.

[rockinredneck57]

@jimcga45 I never got that memo. I guess that's how I managed to go three years on deck! I do remember my first day on flight deck. Scared half to death!! Like to have died at least three times that day! ABF

[jimcga45]

OK, for all you responders who obviously DON'T know what you are talking about here goes. First the "officer" who calls the deck clear is the Arresting Gear Officer after he receives a thumbs up from the Arresting gear deck edge control operator. (That would be me some years back). The A/G officer then gives the green deck to the LSO (Landing Signal Officer) by pushing a button at his station.

[MrSquelcher]

this reely shouldn't be funny becuase the officer didn't clear the deck propaly and he proably got ina lot of trouble for it, but HA!, wire ownd

[skah07]

they didnt shout.. "clear the deck .. " the rope is coming

[TehBrizon]

@skah07 There are no ropes on a ship. ;)

[tyrbolo]

@TehBrizon LOL we had 4000 yards spooled up on our towing engine

and an enormous amount of wire rope and other kinds used all over

The USS CREE maybe we weren't a ship.

[TehBrizon]

@tyrbolo No, silly. They're lines.

[saslegendb20]

not looking for a fight but...typical yanks

[jonesy97]

Not looking for a fight, huh? But you post remarks like "typical yanks?" I suppose there's never any accidents in her majesty's serenely-perfect royal navy? Give me some time. I'm sure I can find a few. So, explain typical yanks to me. What's your definition of typical? Typical what? You started this.

[saslegendb20]

@jonesy97 her majestys royal navy dont use arrester wires as we uoe vtol aircraft and i have scoured youtube and have found no videos with any royal navy accidents

[saslegendb20]

@jonesy97 englands view on the typical yank,stupidly fat,bad sence of humour and dumb.thats our view

[Hawkeye0918]

I think you have those "yanks" to thank for still being able to speak English. Think about that brit.

[saslegendb20]

@Hawkeye0918 americans speak american and it was an englishman that fpoun america so they copied our language

[jonesy97]

I know there's no arresting system on RN ships. That wasn't my question. See my question below.

[sonypics2010]

what was the outcome?

[Buggs41]

I played 'hopscotch' with a wire on CV-41. During Desert storm, the non-skid deck was worn away. An aircraft was being towed while I was in the area of the wire. With the worn flight deck material, the main gear pushed the wire forward on the deck. By the time I saw the cable about to be freed by the rolling tire, it was almost too late. I just jumped and jumped. It missed my legs, by how much, I will never know.

[fn6000]

OK, can someeone PLZ tell if its true or not that a guy was standing on deck when a cable snaped, and it took his head off? my dad was in the U.S.A.F. in the 80s and he heard tell about decaplitation by one of these. or, was this on mythbusters. PLZ REPLY!

[skipstreet]

I was stationed on the Kitty Hawk in the early 80's. I have never seen a cable snap but if a cable snaps while paying out during a landing it will go through an aircraft as well as a person that is in its way. These days it is less likely to happen because of the inspects that happen even during landings.

[fn6000]

k, thx

[shellback1970]

thats the thing about the flight deck..

you gotta keep your head on a swivel..

Its real easy to get fucked up out there...

[trailerlivin]

Those wires aren't looking out for you, you have to be aware of the wire! That did look painful. The wires get pulled back in by the hydraulic arrestor gear belowdecks, it is like a gigantic shock absorber that controls a block-and-tackle. Each wire has its own arresting gear, and the wire is silent and quick!

[alexkills]

fail

[saslegendb20]

@alexkills its not a fail.its a freak accident and the officer dude incharge of the arrester area of the deack fault.he sed deck clear too early

[peanuts2105]

one of THE most dangerous jobs in the world

[ahmednabil]

so , was that wire retractring by mechanical movement , or was it its kinetic energy ?

it its a mechanical movement then it cannot be fatal .

[shellback1970]

The arresting gear are retracted by a mechanical movement...

But your wrong...it can be VERY FATAL..

there is so much tension on those if the wire were to snap...it would be like a giant blade cutting through whatever it hits..

It would cut your legsoff or cut you in half in a fraction of a second..

we counted how many traps each wire had..when it got to a certain number..we strip them and throw them over the side..

[ahmednabil]

actually iwass saying it is fatal especially if it had any recoil to it .

and then some guy in the previous bage said that mythbusters proved that you cannot get cut by this wire . i dont care i think the human bodu can get cut by a tree ,giving enough power .

thanks for the information.. take care on the deck.

[saslegendb20]

@peanuts2105 THE most dangerous job,noirth sea oil rig worker

[jetaddicted]

@saslegendb20 the most dangerous job: pole dancer in kabul...

[navyman153]

@peanuts2105 i did it, I lived...only time i came close to being injured was getting sucked into an intake...good times!

but yes the Second most dangerous job in the world

[FernandoEstebanEsteb]

@peanuts2105 I agree with you o broken wire can cut legs as you cut butter

[vivas33]

pnwt

[bellokswg]

No one died in this video, just severely insured. They probably heard recovery complete meaning the deck is foul so they thought it was safe to cross. Technically they weren't on the wrong except that you are to have your head on a swivel at all times. Just because the deck was foul didn't mean the arresting gear was back in place, I learned the same lesson by hurdling one of these myself.

[saslegendb20]

@bellokswg u seen the vid were a flight deck-hand got sucked in to a prowlers left engine?.its a mirical he survived

[tehrealsurfer]

Dead. For shizzle.He got his body chopped in half!

[Jamez1818]

Lol

[aerolive91]

That's nothing compared to when a arresting cable breaks during a landing ...

[drmrboy29]

wow man mbison83 , you need to chill out. You didnt have to be a dick about raptorchief's comment???

[dimitri02]

LMAO safety training went for shit

[mindyschocolate]

LOL, they went down like bowling pins. People down below watching on their shop tv's probably saw this too. That really sucks. Anyone with a flight deck qual knows to go behind the number #1 wire. Don't know what made them think to go between wires (especially retracting ones), but I'm sure they got their asses handed to them.

[suprchrgr]

Shoulda called it "Taken out by trip wire".

[tomas359]

ha ha!!

[AbahZabah]

He shoulda jumped.

[suprchrgr]

he shoulda ducked.

[rockstarfishy]

i hope i get into flight school. i wanna live the ultimate rollercoaster ride.

[pilipinay]

I was on the flight deck when this happened. They had permission to cross the deck, but were suppose to cross behind ALL the cables, aft of the number one wire, like backrotor1 stated. They screwed up.

[cortocorto]

What happened to those guys? Broken legs? Or worse?

[Dragonguy22]

wtf?

[backrotor1]

That's why you never cross the landing area when the pendant (wire) is being retracted unless you have permission from the arresting gear officer. Then only you can cross 10' behind the #1 wire.

[mbison83]

thank you for the instructions. im sure civilian viewers know what u r talkin about. i do believe that they did get the permission, but thats not the case. the problem here is that they were way too close to the wire.

[raptorchief]

AKA (also known has) not following orders/procedures

[mbison83]

in case you didnt know, we were talking here about permission from a landing officer, not following general procedures, but thanks for your useless input.

[albionsseed]

The mark it leaves will be in his shorts

[sbeutler]

that'll leave a mark!

[genghis6199]

lol