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Navy seamen back an F18 into the drink today
Posted on 4/28/25 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 4/28/25 at 5:49 pm
OT is slacking
F18 “lost at sea”
An F/-18E Super Hornet assigned to the carrier air wing embarked aboard aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) was lost at sea during a towing incident in the hangar bay Monday, according to a Navy announcement.
The single-seat Super Hornet assigned to the “Knighthawks” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136, “was actively under tow in the hangar bay when the move crew lost control of the aircraft. The aircraft and tow tractor were lost overboard,” reads the statement.
“Sailors towing the aircraft took immediate action to move clear of the aircraft before it fell overboard. An investigation is underway.”
F18 “lost at sea”
An F/-18E Super Hornet assigned to the carrier air wing embarked aboard aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) was lost at sea during a towing incident in the hangar bay Monday, according to a Navy announcement.
The single-seat Super Hornet assigned to the “Knighthawks” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136, “was actively under tow in the hangar bay when the move crew lost control of the aircraft. The aircraft and tow tractor were lost overboard,” reads the statement.
“Sailors towing the aircraft took immediate action to move clear of the aircraft before it fell overboard. An investigation is underway.”
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Posted on 4/28/25 at 5:58 pm to baldona
I can't even understand how in the world this happens. And in the hangar bay no less. Times sure we're different back 30 yrs ago. Now they're all playing grabass.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 5:59 pm to OU812ME2
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I can't even understand how in the world this happens. And in the hangar bay no less. Times sure we're different back 30 yrs ago. Now they're all playing grabass.
You pansy arse GenXers weren’t getting shot at 30 years ago.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 6:05 pm to OU812ME2
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Flight ops are flight ops
They did an unexpected high speed turn to avoid a missile lol
Posted on 4/28/25 at 6:06 pm to baldona
Obviously the F18 had information in the cockpit that would lead to Hillary's arrest
Posted on 4/28/25 at 6:08 pm to HeadCall
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You pansy arse GenXers weren’t getting shot at 30 years ago
Missed that part of the story
This post was edited on 4/28/25 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 4/28/25 at 6:20 pm to OU812ME2
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Times sure we're different back 30 yrs ago. Now they're all playing grabass.
I am just glad there wasn't social media to report and/or amplify every time my platoon or company fricked something up. I was in front of the base CG twice in a week when the E4 mafia decided to commit a rare error of commission. Their errors of omission were numerous but the times they actually did something and screwed it up were almost always a severe cluster frick.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 6:27 pm to baldona
It’s not like they don’t know where it is.
Just drop a pin on Google Maps and circle back to it.
Geesh.
Can’t be more than a couple of miles down.
Just drop a pin on Google Maps and circle back to it.
Geesh.
Can’t be more than a couple of miles down.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 6:52 pm to BHM
It had to have been back up too far right? I’m trying to figure out how else you would “tow” an airplane over the side?
Posted on 4/28/25 at 8:13 pm to baldona
That has to be a longggggggggg walk to whatever officer the (probable) kid answers to. It is a long walk for the Junior Officer responsible, too, and the department head.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 8:18 pm to baldona
You said seaman
Posted on 4/28/25 at 8:19 pm to baldona
quote:What happens in the hangar bay stays in the hangar bay.
was actively under tow in the hangar bay
Posted on 4/28/25 at 8:22 pm to baldona
Seaman aren’t in Air Department in the navy. That would be airman who were responsible for the flight deck and aircraft.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 9:36 pm to BayouFann
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Seaman aren’t in Air Department in the navy. That would be airman who were responsible for the flight deck and aircraft.
Not gonna lie I’m ignorant so I apologize. I didn’t realize the navy had airmen
Posted on 4/28/25 at 9:48 pm to baldona
All airmen have seamen. :
Posted on 4/28/25 at 9:50 pm to rph1
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You said seaman
I’ll never be comfortable with this word. Just say sailors or anything else.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 10:00 pm to baldona
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I didn’t realize the navy had airmen
They don’t, they have naval aviators, don’t believe me?
Call one an airmen and see the response you’ll receive.
As previously stated, it wasn’t an oops we’re incompetent, it occurred while the carrier itself was performing an evasive maneuver in a combat situation.
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