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E2C Hawkeye crash

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While taxing aft to the waist catapults, an E2C Hawkeye began to slide on the oily flight deck. This was caught on the PLAT (Pilot Landing Aid Television System) camera. I do not know who the guy was pulling the fuel tank that went through the propeller like a banana in a blender, but I know ABH3 Scott Earmest was sitting in the driver’s seat of the tractor when the propeller blades went across the hood. Amazingly there were no injuries.

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@gonavy505 5 лет назад

I was on deck, I was a Plane Captain with VA-35 at the time the E-2 came to rest on the horizontal stabilizers of one of our KA-6D’s. I will never forget the sound of this when it happened, made me sick to my stomach because I was sure someone got hurt. We were all lucky that night. Shit like this is why we always said, “Head on a swivel”.

@dolley70 Год назад

a buddy of mine was driving the tractor that the E2's blade went across the hood. definitely scary shit. hard to believe this was over 30 years ago, and I was a bright eyed 20 year old kid.

@jkaposi 9 лет назад

OMG...That is insane, Thank Christ there was no injuries. A great addition to my mishaps collection.

@thedangerzone2225 9 лет назад

jkaposi that's the only PLAT video I have. All the rest of my videos were taken by my camcorder. So far I have 23 videos uploaded. You'll probably like my AV8 Harrier landings. Wait until I think it's number 7 landing. It comes in way off center directly over me.

@rolltidelbc2832 6 лет назад

Well mike, of all your vids posted , this is at night when I was on deck. I remember this incident rather well. Seeing everyone running around on deck and from what I remember, I can see myself briefly in the vid going inside the hummer to check things out. That was a pretty exciting night to say the least. Even though that was over 25 years ago, something like that kinda sticks in your head. Hope your doing well. Take it easy. Joe.

@mikemiller3995 6 лет назад

And Earmest was sitting on that tractor when the prop went across it. I don't remember how long it lasted, but he stopped stuttering for quite a while after that.

@rdunative Год назад

Yep, during Desert Storm. I was in VAW-125 when it happened. CAW-17 in the Red Sea. Little to no non-skid on the flight deck by that point.

@djguss1 7 лет назад

VAW-125 604, was taxing after when a tomcat on the bow launched, the deck was slick yes, and the jet blast caught the wings just right and kicked it down the flight deck, we had almost the exact same incident on the Sara on the 87' med cruise but that time the prop sliced thru the wing of a C-2A COD from VR-24 and they had to call a NADEP team out to repair the damage so we could fly it off the ship

@eddurfer9861 6 лет назад

Thank you for posting that. My brother was on that E-2C and I didn't know the video existed. He complained that the deck was so worn out it made flight ops even more dangerous. Again thanks for posting. AO3 Ed

@Eggo645 6 лет назад

I was on the Sara during the '87 Med Cruise.

@mikerenchkovsky2825 5 лет назад

@@eddurfer9861 I was the flight deck maintenance Chief (Ski)for VAW-125 , I was in front of 604 when it started to slide. As some one said it's been a long time but when I see this post it all comes back

@jakubcikhart9639 5 лет назад

@@eddurfer9861 Hi, any chance for a BuNo. for that E-2C ? I would like to add it to my Gulf war site at www.dstorm.eu. Thanks !

@jakubcikhart9639 5 лет назад

@@mikerenchkovsky2825 Hi, any chance for a BuNo. for that E-2C ? I would like to add it to my Gulf war site at www.dstorm.eu. Thanks !

@donwilliams3571 Месяц назад

Bet there were some aircraft who had to change there skivvies! This mishap had the potential to be so much worse.

@macdaddy5802 5 лет назад

What ship was that on it looks awful familiar never that was the Saratoga I was coming out of the cat walk when that happened wow !

@jkaposi 9 лет назад

Hey thanks, i worked it out from your other vids, they are awesome BTW....I'm an Aussie carrier vet (76-82), i love all things naval air to this day. Do you have any other PLAT scenes?

@jkaposi 9 лет назад

I have seen them all, and downloaded the best flight ops ones (hope you don't mind), they look great on the big TV.

@thedangerzone2225 9 лет назад

Not at all, enjoy.

@jkaposi 9 лет назад

How did you end up with just the one PLAT scene anyway?

@thedangerzone2225 9 лет назад

They showed it several times on our closed circuit TV, so one day I hooked my camcorder up to the TV and copied it. One of my jobs was right below the PLAT calling the spots of the planes to Flight Deck Control.

@jkaposi 9 лет назад

OK, thanks a heap.

@jakubcikhart9639 4 года назад

Any chance for exact date of this accident ? Thanks.

@mikemiller3995 4 года назад

No, I did not keep a journal. But it was after Desert Storm had begun because the non-skid was gone in many places which left a slippery deck. So it was most likely in February 1991.

@LineOpsBoy 4 года назад

Summer 1992

@jakubcikhart9639 4 года назад

@@LineOpsBoy Hi, really summer 1992 ? All the info says during DS, which was not in 1992 anymore. Thanks.

@dolley70 Год назад

@@LineOpsBoy summer 92, Sara was in the Adriatic Sea bombing the shit our of Yugoslavia

@jkaposi 9 лет назад

What ship is this, and do you have a date if possible?

@thedangerzone2225 9 лет назад

This is the USS Saratoga CV-60 1990-1991, during the Gulf War. We were stationed in the Red Sea. I don't remember the exact date, but I would say it was in the first part of 1991 when the non-skid on our deck was missing in many spots leaving patches of oily steel.

@dolley70 5 лет назад

@@thedangerzone2225 yes, there wasn't any non skid left from the 6 pack aft

@nothanx3867 5 лет назад

I was on Sara on the way back from Nam, probably the slickest deck after 9 months of ops BUT... was glad it was when we crossed back and I was Wog crossing the line for the first time. Glad no one was hurt above. To the OP, I too worked in Flight Deck control for the last 3 months of my hitch. Best 3 months of TAD of my enlistment.

@LineOpsBoy 4 года назад

@@thedangerzone2225 It was Sara, 1992 cruise.

@mikemiller3995 4 года назад

@@LineOpsBoy No, I was on it. It was the 1990-91 during the Gulf War.