Crash of the F9F Panther on the USS Midway in 1951

[AESOPPOSEA1]

This was the USS Midway. My father (now deceased) was about 100 feet away on the flight deck when this happened. We were watching The Hunt For Red October when Dad saw this and said "shit I was on the Midway when that happened!" At first I thought that he was pulling my leg until I did some research (film archieves, Naval magazines, etc.) and found that he was telling me the truth.

[sopues]

Pilot survived. Read your wikipedia people :) Scorched his ears a bit.... :)

[sierra043]

did i see the pilot get thrown out of the cockpit and promptly crushed or nearly crushed by the rest of the aircraft that was also on fire? O.o

[brown9708]

@sierra043The canopy just popped off. His ears got burned but he walked away and started flying again in a few months. He retired and became a lawyer.

[catlitta]

RIP this guy...

I just built a plastic kit F9F Panther in pink for my korean friend xD

[FJvoodoo]

The carriers did have a severe down draft at the rear of the ship so aircraft do dip down a little bit at that part of the landing. Guess he was a bit too low. This makes you pucker doesn't it.

[Tjita1]

That looks like one excellent way not to do it.

[pbfuddle]

Not a fun day, landing jets on a flattop suck because of spool-up times.

Heston's crash in Midway was caused because his controls ( elevators in particular ) were shot up.

[caleb505]

I can just here him saying Ahhh shit as he gets close to the carrier.

[00Billy]

hey I know...I'll just slice off all the dangerous exploding parts and then land..

Todays US Naval aviators have it easy these days....ILS, angled decks...oodles of power...

Man these guys were hanging it out there...

[ahz123]

@00Billy Modern pilots also have automatic landing systems.

[japanupe1911]

@00Billy Yeah faster approach speed, more sluggish control response closer to stall speed, larger airframe to la ratio. Yeah its easier. Also, would you want to turn on acls and trust your life to that?

[maxcool951]

lucky ejector seats were invented

[maxcool951]

omg

[maxcool951]

damn that was friggin crazy

[AsianHacker9999]

reminds me of japanese kamikazes...



[ThyBiding]

Damn, that guy got really lucky!

[VikiMano]

What a noob kamikaze...

[MrJp990]

@VikiMano he was goin to slow... he didnt kamikazie the carrier

[rcvideoshooter]

Air pocket? Looked low all the way to me. Deck rise got him.

[Sublette217]

F9F-5 Panther ramp strike accident occurs as Cdr. George Chamberlain Duncan attempts landing on USS Midway in BuNo 125228, during carrier suitability tests in the Atlantic Ocean. Forward fuselage breaks away and rolls down the deck, pilot suffering burns but survives. Footage of this accident has been used in several films including Men of the Fighting Lady and The Hunt For Red October.

[deetjay1]

@Sublette217

They killed off Charlton Heston using the same footage in the movie, "Midway"...No jets in that war...So lame...

[HerraTohtori]

"A collision at sea can ruin your entire day."

-Thucydides (c. 460 BCE – c. 395 BCE)

[xiangyu1986]

still alive aye? i was wondering

[d3aviation]

This was CVA 34 USS Oriskany. I know because my dad was on it when this happened. The pilots name was LT Dollar. I have the cruise book with the snap shots in it. He was slightly bruised and was back in another plane the next day. Also, it was a Banshee, not a Panther.

[d3aviation]

@hunter69denys I dont really care what the link says. It could say that I was flying the worlds first fart powered jet fighter, would you believe that too?

[JuliaWillD]

@d3aviation nope, sorry, wrong crash. this was george c. duncan

[d3aviation]

This was CVA 34 USS Oriskany.  I know because my dad was on it when this happened. The pilots name was LT Dollar. I have the cruise book with the snap shots in it.

[Disgorge2b]

nice, pilot dead

[Tabby266]

@Disgorge2b Nope. He hopped in another plane the next day. If the plane had hit lower he probably wouldve died, but the cockpit remained intact.

[Disgorge2b]

@Tabby266 sorry, I thought of one american scum became less, I hope the next time he will die and kill for this many personnel carrier

[ALSHARPTON69]

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[Disgorge2b]

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[ALSHARPTON69]

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[fireboyburnaby]

@Disgorge2b Whats that boy, Timmy is stuck in a well???

[Sundogjeep]

@Disgorge2b <-----  Barbarian goat fucker. Great. I thought we greased most of you assholes.

[Disgorge2b]

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Another idiot with his anal civilization, which immediately climbs into my ass and where did you get so much by a fag ?

[bocan57]

Sure looks like the F9F crash on the USS Princeton in 1951 when I was aboard. The pilot was killed.

[leighsoft]

Pretty sure that movie was called Men of the fighting lady, 

[obefiend]

the use this footage in the Hunt for Red October. only the flipped it and made it look like an f14.

[Cool2BCeltic]

@obefiend Yes I was thinking that. I remember the F14 that turned into a Panther very well. It was almost as bad a continuity error as a Rolls Royce turning into a Mini.

[ARKALER]

I'm surprised that this was listed as a crash on USS MIDWAY. The MIDWAY was considered an unusually 'lucky' ship by men who served on her. Sailors were always shaking their heads with wonder and commenting on the 'Midway Magic', when seemingly troublesome situations always worked themselves out almost automatically as if by magic.

[101andrewj]

its safe to say that the pilot is dead

[ItsTimothy]

@101andrewj no he lived. bad burns though

[LukRacer]

I feel sorry for the pilot. :-(

[AirCarrier]

I'm not sure, since I can't find it, but I beleive this crash occurred on the USS Oriskany-CVA-34 not the Midway. Will have check out some videos of that time

[CheckSixDotCom]

Check the link in the "Info" box

[AirCarrier]

Yeah- I saw that-so it was the Midway. This clip was used in the Men of the Gallant Lady-which featured the Oriskany-where I served on. Midway sailed with us.

Thanks

[idavedj]

@AirCarrier Yes it was on the Oriskany-CVA-34.

My Dad was a pilot and on the ship that day he also has a 8mm home movie of this crash.



[AirCarrier]

@idavedj - Yes, this footage has been used in several movies, even The Bridges of Toko-Ri which was filimed on Oriskany. I was sationed on Oriskany 1969-1972. We had a similiar crash to this, not as spectacular as on The Midway. Maybe you can get your Dad's footage up on line. It would be interesting to see. I thank you Dad for his service.

[Andybucker]

Damn! Poor guy. A similar situation was described in the "Rocket Man".

[jb478000]

The Bridges at ToKo Ri

[spchalupa]

looks like a banshee or demon..F2H

[AlexCluster]

such a lucky boy!

[basimpsn]

Was that a helmet @ 0.19 ??

[flyinDPOD]

@basimpsn If you freeze it there it looks to me like a wheel

[basimpsn]

@flyinDPOD you are right lol

[schleifi92]

i´ve got an F9F Panther fron Airworld in 1:5,5 scale. This happend to me one time. I´ve been flying up to 100 m of the ground and i tried to test the slowspeed options of that plane. it was pretty amazing because the F9 flews at realy slow speed, but then i was a bit to slow an it stalled. Same as you can see in the video my Panther stalled over the left wing. But i could recover the plane and land it safely without a damage :-). That wa my first flight with the Airworld F9F Panther

david

[CVKent317]

1:5.5 scale? You have a model that's over 7 feet long?

[schleifi92]

yes i have^^. it´s from the german modeler Airworld. I love that plane-very easy to fly:-).

At the moment i´ve got between 50 or 60 flights on it and its still amazing^^

cheers david

[jagerfaust2009]

No not alive "today".............

Please click the link listed (more info) at the top right of this page (not brain science)

Thanks for the posting, very interesting and informative.

jager........

[dans1120]

Looks like an F2H to me, the wings are too long and their dihedral is too high to be an F9F.

[Fait2]

I think it is definitely an F9F. I checked other videos of them and they look the same. I'll check with my Uncle, too. He's still alive although very ill with Lou Gherig's disease. But he should remember.

Very sharp of you to notice things like this, though. Most would be too involved with the crash to note if it were a DC-3 or a 747.

[Fait2]

My Uncle was an airdale on the Midway when this happened. At the time, he was in the sick bay after having having the tip of his right thumb sewn back on after another accident. He still remembers the noise, though - LOUD!

[kjs12224]

my grandfather was on the midway in the vietnam war

[Sinepuxent]

There sre only electronics, the nose wheel, search/acquisition radar system and 20mm cannons/magazines forward of the cockpit area on this aircraft - no fuelwhich is stored in wing and fuselage tanks.

Unfortunately, the pilot appears to have caught a "rising deck" on final as the stern rose higher than his descending aircraft and it impacted the round down area of the flight deck. Luckily, it was high enough for the airframe to break where it did and roll the cockpit forward onto the deck!

[georgebush411]

This is the crash scene archive footage used in the movie The Hunt For Red October, with Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin. It is the scene where the plane crashes on the aircraft carrier, and Fred Thompson says "This business will get out of control!"

[j4cko56]

That was a nasty crash, and it seems that the way the panther was designed, saved his life. It looks like there is no fuel in the front half of the plane, that is why the cockpit and nose didn't set alight. If there had of been fuel in the nose, the out come could have been much worse.

[elsectros]

yes he,s lcdr goerge c duncan an ace of ww2 he have only minor injury and is still alive today

[vascularcylinder]

He passed away in 1995, right?

[WinchesterRanger]

If I remember rightly, the pilot survived.

[CheckSixDotCom]

Follow the link in the "About This Video" block...

[KaiserKrebs13]

Looks as if the pilot is thrown out of his belts, and clear of the wreckage at about 16 seconds of the film clip. Pretty amazing footage. Toured the Midway recently, no mention of this crash, or of the fire in 1990 that killed three, and wounded 12. Probably a lot more incidents as she served in three wars.