USS Nimitz accident cover-up 1/2

This is a video the government tried to prevent Americans from watching.

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[mgwilliams1000]

First, the A-3 was an enormous aircraft for carrier operations. There would have been BAD things happen had it hit the barricade properly, which it did not. Second, no offence to the flightdeck crew that night, but that was a bad rigged barricade. I'm sure time was a factor with low fuel and such on the aircraft..... you could see that in even this poor video. Yes, 11 carrier flightdeck overseas deployments over 30 years, I know what I'm talking about.

[Kumacho1957]

@mishman363 I was in CATCC that night in 1987. It was my first anniversary in the Navy. Each of his 5 passes were too high and fast for the 4 wire. I only recall one hook skip on the 4 wire but all the rest were just too high. He did not have enough fuel to make it to NAS Sig. The KA-6 tanker was a sour tanker and after he chased it and received no fuel I seem to recall his fuel state was 1.5 (Just from memory) I could be wrong about the exact amount.

[suraxis]

What a fucking joke. Media sensationalizing things once again for a fucking ratings boost.

[ccblack1]

" Accident cover up " what a joke. I wonder how many A-3's were put in the drink and aircrews lost with this aircraft from the 1950's to the end of it's flying career with the U.S. Navy. Too many and too long to list. This was just a bad luck operational night for the Nimitz back in Jan 1987. Period. Hard Copy was a tabloid t.v. show that made rating by trying to sensationalize stories such as this.

[Zyworski]

@jacobdoerner20

the wiki article on the Nimitz mentions a prowler crash as you describe, but never mentions a Sky Warrior, but I think we can agree the plane in this video is a Sky Warrior. Further investigation puts the date of this crash on 1/25/87 and the Prowler crash on 5/26/81. I got the articles mixed up, but not the planes.

[jacobdoerner20]

@Zyworski I think you are talking about two seperate crashes. There was an earlier incident when an EA 6B plowed into the six pack at the front of the ship killing several flight deck crew. This incident was an A3 Whale that slid off the front of the ship wo hitting any other planes.

[jacobdoerner20]

@4NICK8TER1 no the plane was entered through doors rather than a canopy. the only way out is to bail out.

[jacobdoerner20]

@mgwilliams1000 i was there that night and you are right. We couldnt get the barricade rigged correctly due to a faulty motor. A thousand things went wrong.

[ccblack1]

Screw trying to make a decent landing. Just put the damn thing into the barrier !! I read about an incident similar to this, an A-3 was having trouble getting aboard a carrier, and the order was given to abort further landing attempts, climb to altitude and for the crew to bail out. The crew made it out okay and was eventually rescued. But the A-3 didn't crash into the sea right away ( It finally did though ) It started circling and everyone was afraid it would crash into the ship. True story

[BA31Driver]

Glad to see postings from those 'in the know', rather than armchair quarterback losers who have never worked around aircraft operations at all. My hat is off to all those who have done/still do this job.

[justinmichaeloakley]

The A-3 is a big plane,when I was aboard the Ike as a hangar deck crewman,we called it a Whale. These aren't attached to the normal air wing,but are sent to the carrier after it gets to the operating area,Med.,Indian Ocean.So, these pilots don't get as many traps aboard the specific carrier as the rest of the air wing does.I heard that this bird was designed for delivering nuke weapons but has since been used for spy missions.What a terrible tragedy...that kind of thing will sap crew morale.

[4NICK8TER1]

No ejection seat?