Emergency Landing on Cargo Ship by Sea Harrier - Soapy Watson - The Alraigo Incident
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- Emergency Landing on Cargo Ship (The Alraigo) by Sea Harrier from HMS Illustrious - Soapy Ian Watson - c1983
Watson was reprimanded and given a desk job. Watson eventually acquired 2,000 hours in Sea Harriers and another 900 in F/A-18s before resigning his commission in 1996. Today, he says that media attention embarrassed Royal Navy brass and caused the punishment, but refuses to point fingers. "It was me," he says. "I was there and that's where it should stop."
I say good work Soapy! (now a Real Estate Agent,- so I I heard)
better than ditching it in the sea
The pilot, Ian Watson, is now a (real) estate agent in New Zealand. That’s quite a change!
I didn't know that... I seen Sea Harriers here in NZ when HMS Invincible visited in 1983.. a friend of mine was Tactical Radar Operator on HMS Invincible during the Falklands War he didn't know if he was going to live ior die!....we have a GR3 Harrier in a museum.. thanks from down under 👍🇳🇿
He is just a kid. Can't believe the military blamed it on him.
Age is not a factor. If you are a member of the British armed forces, you take responsibility for your actions.
In released documents, its revealed he made a great deal of effort to avoid the situation. Most of the blame was shifted to his commanding officers for placing him in that position without sufficient training, although some blame was placed with him as there were measures he was trained in (though accepted without much experience) and did not use, which would have avoided this
@@p3rs0n42 If the pilot had landed on A british container ship then the pilot would have been praised for his flight skills and be the new face for recruitment ads. Since UK-Spain have a "enemy of my enemy is my friend" type relations this was a major embarrassment for the Royal Navy and just blamed the pilot.
@@abes3925 I agree . Lost of radio contact to his base is a technical issue has nothing to do with lack of experience . This young pilot made a wonderful job in not wasting such expensive machine
This pilot put in danger more people landing in the ship. If the aircraft lost control and crash to the ship it would be very different situation in the middle of the ocean. You can replace any aircraft lost,it is only money,but personal damage is hard to justify. I do not think he would do the same thing again,he would eject close to the ship to be rescue as fast as possible with no danger to other people or even property.
So landing in the ship was not a very good idea. But how this kid ended in that situation is the real accident here,not the landing itself. They can blame the emergency procedure landing was not landing on a random ship,just ditch the plane in a safe way.
Note to self, if landing on a cargo ship. SET THE BRAKES.
+Low Tech Zalvo Britannia rules the wave s.The septics wave the rules
I think you'll notice he landed on the cargo container with wheels up. At least looking at the outriggers you can see they are retracted. Maybe he realised that the aircraft would probably slip or roll because the top deck of a cargo container is not wide enough to support all 4 landing gears?
throthelens just saw this but you are wrong his gear was down you can clearly see the front gear @@throthelensand there is a shadow of the mains reflected on the van it tha tail is resting on
@@rehil123 I'm not certain, you'd have to ask Soapy but in the early pictures the gear is retracted and may have been lowered for the salvage attempt. I think if I had to drop it onto a tiny cargo container I would sit it on its belly rather than risk a roll-off.
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Well better than “Soapy” having to eject over water with little chance of rescue along with the loss of a Sea Harrier.
Aye lads! I'm on TV!
That must have been scary situation.
All the best Sub LT wattson!
Hello everyone!, I am from Tenerife and I was 7 years old when my father took me to the port to see it... I always wondered, did that Harrier participate at the Falklands Islands war?...