@WindSplitter1 Now THAT is a moronic and juvenile comment (yeah, it took me a month as well, but I spend less time here with adolescents like yourself).
It was in 1988 and it was an A7. We were preparing to launch an A6 Intruder off of cat #3 where I was assigned. If I recall correctly, the ship went into a starboard turn which caused the aircraft to start its uncontrolled roll to the port side. I was told it lost pressure to the brakes, and when he dropped the tailhook it locked the nosegear steering. You could see him doing something frantically in the cockpit, but as his nose passed over the scupper he sat upright and pulled the face curtain
It was the ISO handle, a lever actually. It charged the 10 accumulators only 9 used on the A-7E with nitrogen and in addition to 8 other systems allowed the brakes on the A-7 to work. There was a toggle switch that you flipped one way for 30 seconds or so and then moved the ISO handle to a locked position. When the plane captain did a turn around they would call out "dumping accumulators" because the gas discharged from a vent that popped open.
It was his brakes... This plane was just a standby or "spare" for a flight that had just taken off. The yellow shirts were only repositioning it to another part of the flightdeck when the accident occurred. Maintenance personnel were working on the hydraulic system while it sat idling, flipping a handle that disabled the brakes. When the yellowshirts directed the pilot to taxi the aircraft, neither he or the maintenance personnel thought to flip the handle back. The rest is history...
@bakerjf Yes VA 97 i saw it first hand too. I was a plane captain on that cruse. was on the deck and knew the pilot. He was a very nervous pilot and panicked when he lost the breaks. Dropped the hook so the nose gear steering goes out.
Stupid navy pilots...
No wonder everyone disses the navy...
WindSplitter1 5 months ago
@WindSplitter1 how can you blame the pilot for a brake malfunction? The pilot did what he needed to do, he ejected and saved his own life.
DrHavoc1 4 months ago 2
took u a month to answer...
WindSplitter1 4 months ago
@WindSplitter1 Now THAT is a moronic and juvenile comment (yeah, it took me a month as well, but I spend less time here with adolescents like yourself).
CRsBeem 4 months ago
Then you've came to the wrong place, because Youtube is crawling with guys like that. I stopped being a teenager a long time ago, and still is true.
in anothe vid in a SB-3 I think, the pilot lands too fast and misses the cable, the CT instructs them to eject
and they do, then the plane steadly gains height and flies away... And you're telling me that ain't dumb?
(But on the other hand i place this comment in the wrong place :) )
Either way, whatever, man, what's done is done.
Be well.
WindSplitter1 4 months ago
oooo dont mind me im just move this here plane into the ocean to clear up some space
bigBn20102010 6 months ago
Nose wheel steering not working ??????
avionicswirenut 7 months ago
Yeah I was there to on deck working with CAG arm/de-arm. I was with VF 51.
kevin8855 8 months ago
Oh wait, according to the video it was an S3, not an A6. Pardon my failing memory :P
jeepman209 9 months ago
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rmtjeepman 9 months ago
It was in 1988 and it was an A7. We were preparing to launch an A6 Intruder off of cat #3 where I was assigned. If I recall correctly, the ship went into a starboard turn which caused the aircraft to start its uncontrolled roll to the port side. I was told it lost pressure to the brakes, and when he dropped the tailhook it locked the nosegear steering. You could see him doing something frantically in the cockpit, but as his nose passed over the scupper he sat upright and pulled the face curtain
rmtjeepman 9 months ago
Now that's how you make an A-7 disappear! 0:17 poof! gone...
chazflyz 10 months ago 7
It was the ISO handle, a lever actually. It charged the 10 accumulators only 9 used on the A-7E with nitrogen and in addition to 8 other systems allowed the brakes on the A-7 to work. There was a toggle switch that you flipped one way for 30 seconds or so and then moved the ISO handle to a locked position. When the plane captain did a turn around they would call out "dumping accumulators" because the gas discharged from a vent that popped open.
LANewell2 1 year ago
I saw it too, from Ready 4 though.
davidabarak 1 year ago
It was his brakes... This plane was just a standby or "spare" for a flight that had just taken off. The yellow shirts were only repositioning it to another part of the flightdeck when the accident occurred. Maintenance personnel were working on the hydraulic system while it sat idling, flipping a handle that disabled the brakes. When the yellowshirts directed the pilot to taxi the aircraft, neither he or the maintenance personnel thought to flip the handle back. The rest is history...
bakerjf 1 year ago
You are wrong, it was an A-7E from VA-97 on the Carl Vinson around 1988. I know because I saw it firsthand.
bakerjf 2 years ago
@bakerjf why did that happen? was it brakes or did the throttle stcik?????
drod103164 1 year ago
@bakerjf Yes VA 97 i saw it first hand too. I was a plane captain on that cruse. was on the deck and knew the pilot. He was a very nervous pilot and panicked when he lost the breaks. Dropped the hook so the nose gear steering goes out.
kneesurfer1965 6 months ago
this NOT an A-7 CORSAIR but...
A-3 (A3D) Skywarrior MISHAP;
BOYCOT4YT 2 years ago
that was just weird!
newsweekrocks 2 years ago