Carrier Landing Goes Wrong
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US Navy F/A-18 fighter jet carrier landing during storm
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Airbus A321neo lightning strike after takeoff
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Turkish Airlines Airbus A321neo hard landing and go around
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Title reads "landing goes wrong". Reality: lands plane masterfully...
he caught the 1 wire and was on the brink of a cut pass
He always titles his videos wrong and dramatic!
Well said!!
@@jonnie2bad not being perfect and going horribly wrong are wildly different things. Stop defending click baiting, it’s annoying, and insulting.
When you're here to watch desaster and just get to see sth. exciting. :-(
That F/A-18 landing was out of this world. Difficulty level extreme. impressive.
It was amazing. That guy on deck should get off his phone and pay attention. 🤣
Night carrier landings are probably the most difficult thing humans do routinely.
@@RonaldPottol agreed. I'd do a hail mary every time in this circumstances.
Those guys have huge brass balls. I'm amazed that the planes with them in it even get off the ground.
i don't think he actually stuck the landing on the second try, would like to know if me made it at all
Army guy here. Had a chance to tour CVN-65 Enterprise (1994). Surprised how small the flight deck is when you actually walk on it. These Naval Aviators are the great pilots on Earth.
As the legendary David Gunson said of naval aviators:- "Now there are another group of pilots, those who land on carriers. These folks are clinically insane. Any sensible pilot would land at the nearest airfield and wait for the boat to come in!"
Like trying to land on a postage stamp.
Greatest pilots on Earth.
First time I've seen a bolted in full afterburner, blowing rain off the deck. Impressive!
My father was a fighter pilot in the US Air Force. Now, every fighter pilot trash talks other pilots. But my dad never spoke ill of naval aviators. Even if they're flying a C-2 Greyhound, a cargo plane, they still have to land on carriers. Navy pilots are badasses.
Probably the best aviators around , Especially the carrier born pilots hands down !
On old boss flew A4s and used to say “why would I be worried? We flew 400 knots at forty feet.”
As is said in « The Right Stuff », in the Navy, they’re called aviators, and one says they’re better than pilots…
Definitely better indeed.
@ effing A, Bubba
John McCain was a pretty terrible naval aviator, though.
F-18 pilot was working the control stick like a butter churn and the rudder pedals like he was in the Tour de France. Well done!!
I've never heard that analogy before. That was awesome!
@@doggonemess1he might be a cyclist dairy farmer 😂
Not much rudder input right there, mostly throttle and stick.
For landing F-18, Wx looked like WOXOF (Weather: Overcast, Ceiling Obscured, Visibility Zero). Landing on a 12,000' runway in that weather is awesome. Landing in that weather on 300' funway is superhuman. Thank The Maker that this is routine US ops. Thanks, my USN brothers and sisters.
Imagine that foggy stormy carrier landing at night.
Imagine the tin cans that had to follow that carrier around in that stuff…
Imagine the submariners below the carrier being bored.
Thats why the tanker plane lands last.
Sometimes they launch a second tanker into that.
As a dude who used to land jets on ships, I can say that this is pretty standard for pitching deck. A “waveoff, burner!” does happen now and then, along with a “taxi 1-wire”. Is it perfect? Nope. Is it “gone wrong”? Absolutely not.
It is arguably the most difficult thing in aviation. Or at least it WAS…before these kids got Magic Carpet! 😂😂😂
'If you are landing on a carrier always aim for the back - NEVER the front. Because if you miss, it'll run over you' - David Gunson
So you're sour, that you didn't get to experience the new tech, that makes it "easier" and less dangerous to land a multimillion dollar yet? Got it.
I'd never heard of Magic Carpet before and had to look it up. That's pretty cool tech.
@@CerberusTenshi Sour? Are you in the military? This sounds like good natured ribbing, which is a long tradition in any armed service. He clarified with the three laughing emojis at the end. I'm sure he'd tell you about the shortcomings of the US Air Force pilots and the IQ scores of the Marines he's worked with, too. XD
On the note, my favorite Marine joke:
What do you call a Marine with an IQ of 80?
General.
@@CerberusTenshi You will always wonder what it's really like. You'll always be on the outside looking in. You're not half as clever as you think you are.
I recall reading years ago that the US Navy put hear rate monitors in some of their pilots during the Vietnam war, Dog fighting and having SAM's fired at them pegged the monitorss lower than night landings and landings in storms.
This is fact.
Yep, fact.
Both my dad and my youngest brother were Naval Aviators. The only worse scenario is landing during a storm at night. My dad said they were his most difficult landings.
There's a video of the Carrier Airgroup Commander (CAG) having a late night exercise which was also very bad weather, insisting that every pilot take part. It was hair raising to say the least. You could tell because the female officer supervising the landings was making really worried faces.
All planes landed safely and perhaps to make his point, the CAG was the last one to land, flying the refueling plane that was supplying extra fuel to those pilots who needed a few extra attempts.
F/A - 18 "Pucker Factor 10!" Nice work.
That F-18 landing was incredible, the weather conditions were terrible.
Cruised the Far East with VF-154 on USS Independence and Kitty Hawk. Seen a fair share of bolters and a few field diverts in my time due to weather. Even deployed the crash barricade for a real-world aircraft arrest. A go around us a usual event. Fowled deck, ship takes a navigational turn. Pitching deck, weather, cable laceration of the flight deck crew with an severed arresting cable, etc. Powering through for a go-around is par for the course.
Yup. It's so common that the pilots are trained to hit full throttle as soon as they hit the deck, in case the hook doesn't catch - the engines will have already spooled up to power so they can maintain flight speed without dropping into the drink.
I was an AT (avionics tech) for VA-185; we still had the A-7 in the early 80s, then wound up attached to NAS Cecil Field, FL.
Oh - then once I got out, I took up trucking in 1984 - just retired after 40 years, most of it flatbedding..
Oh, wow. That must be the first time in human history an F-18 had to do a go-around. What an amazing video; I'm so very glad I got to see this once-in-a-life-time event.
00:15: Well, 2 attempts to land on a carrier with this weather is far from being "carrier landing going wrong", it's good. Sometimes they need to make more than 2 approaches.
💯 Absolutely no shame in a "goaround"
Those first two... Holy heck!!!
Carrier landing didnt go wrong, just did it safely on second attempt
a one wire is not a safe landing for navy standards
@@jonnie2badnot being perfect and going horribly wrong are wildly different things. Stop defending click baiting, it’s annoying, and insulting.
@@jonnie2badgiven the weather, any safe landing is a safe landing and if they dont like the 1 wire perhaps dont send the jet out 🙆
I don't think he got it. None of the arrestor cable moved.
@@jonnie2bad That's what I've read. I watched it several times though and could not see the number one wire hooked and pulled down the deck?
Landing aircraft in weather like that on a rolling deck is amazing to watch. Those navy pilots are boss level.
That Turkish Airlines A321 neo looked a bit sketchy. I could feel that bump from from my sofa!
Looked like it bent the airplane.
@@martinlunsford1077possibly… certainly an inspection and delay to travellers. It was a rapid rate of descent.
I don't feel so bad now that I could never successfully land on the carrier in Top Gun on NES, it really is that difficult.
This comment makes me feel better. I never could trap on that 8 bit POS either.
@@bentonroach9528 It's actually harder in the game...at least in real life you get more than one chance to land it. 🤣
I rarely play games, but somehow managed to stick that Landing flawlessly as a kid. Drove my brother crazy as he’s unbeatable at everything else but he couldn’t do it.
Years later he got the retro tech and the game, and said ‘don’t you dare’. Yep, Ibrought it in like butter lol 🇨🇦🛬
Excellent job by the Turkish crew to reject that porpoise landing rather than force it and excercabate the situation
One of my favorite YT channels.
I'm always amazed at these autoland videos taken from the cockpit, some have even less visibility than the one in today's video. There are few situations where people are fully putting their lives in the "hands" of a computer program, but this clearly one of them.
I agree, it’s great technology. But not simply putting your lives in the hands of a computer. A cat 3 ILS requires specific training and permission from their operator and the airfield to be fully functional (it’s not always) as I’m sure you know. Because it’s a complex task monitoring the aircraft systems, it’s still a high workload for the crew. It is amazing, but I’d like to remind others less knowing that auto land use is rare. Either pilot can cancel landing at any time, and pilots much prefer to hand fly, if visibility is good below minimums. It can be a “get me home” but it’s not meant to be used in circumstances not requiring it.
Wow! Kalitta Air does an autoland.
When I worked there between 2003 and 2006, we were CAT1 only! They taught us to do CATII approaches in the simulator even though the airplane was not certified to do it. Just in case, because we often flew to places were there was no alternate available....
Can i ask a genuine question. Does the autoland do everything, mostly everything or just the main things when autolanding? And given that computers with accurate location data should autoland an airliner pretty much perfectly every time, why is it not used all the time? Sorry if these seem like stupid questions but I don't fully understand how autoland works and I'd much rather ask a real person that some AI! (in much the same way as I'd rather any airliner I was on was helmed by a human with at least most of their faculties still intact!)
@@XXSkunkWorksXXnot sure what you mean by “do everything”.
It only flies the approach, it flares and it rolls out on the centerline. It does not set flaps and gear. It basically does what every auto pilot does, plus it knows how to flare for landing and keep it rolling down the centerline.
Autoland has its limitations. It can’t autoland when the winds are too strong, especially crosswinds. So during those weather conditions, the pilots have to land. This is why the pilots don’t use autopilot all the time, to keep their skills up for landing when the autopilot is out of limits.
Lightning in sub-freezing weather is somewhat unusual!
It’s actually not. It’s just much harder to observe when it’s snowing etc.
Now, the corrections of impressions:
1. The F-18E's pilot simply didn't have enough skill to align correctly with the ILS and keep it thers. There was no strong wind nor turbulent, most lf the wind comes from the forward movement of thr ship.
2. The last "Hairbus" pilot which did 2 go arounds was also proving his low skills. First of all, most of the failed attempts were visibly due to trying to touchdown very far on the runway, not becuase of alignment or oscillations which weren't actually bad. He was just poor at touchdown distances. The wind wasn't high from the left, estimatively no higher than some 15 kts, not turbulent or maybe just low.
There is no 'ILS" on carriers. You have no clue what the metoc data was. You're talking out of your butt, which is common for those suffering from Dunning-Kruger.
As a videographer, filming that first moment would be incredible... but also terrifying.
That carrier landing went quite right,including the. go-around.
call the ball maverick
I like your compilations but the titles are getting increasingly clickbait. Strictly speaking they are correct. But misleading.
I don't think they're written by someone with a lot of aviation background
@@gryphon10 Written by "Engagement specialists"
Wow that pilot flying the Super Hornet was brilliant!
Such creative videos you’ve on this channel. Just subscribed!
Cant imagine the pressure on the f-18 pilot. No way back, no mistake. Crazy!!
Astonishing videos 😳
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers🍺🍺
“Call the ball”
“What ball?”
“Call the ball”
“Clara” (means don’t see the ball)
LSOs: “We see your landing lights, keep it coming.”
Connie Kalitta was a chevy dealer in carolina, decades ago, that got into racing and built a local air service. a 747?? he seems to be doing ok, looks like! good vid!
Weather says "I don't care what you need to do". Pilot says "''I'll get her done."
wow - some skilled airmen out there
Every aviation nerd….
Waits for this guy to post. 😂
That was the soupiest, sketchiest conditions I’ve ever seen any aircraft land in, and it happens to be on a postage stamp carrier in the middle of the ocean to multiply the sketchiness to infinity.
Fffng incredible
I am almost 100% sure the first clip is from a longer video I just watched. It's from the Black Knights. The video is incredible and worth a watch, it's a cinematic masterpiece. Video title is F/A-18 'Carrier Flying: VFA-154 Black Knight Cruise 2021 (4K)' and it's just 30 minutes of fighter jet goodness as you follow the black knights on what I believe is a mission.
F-18 didnt tried twice, he used afterburner to clear the landing area first.
Credit to these pilots 🫡
The initial pass with the F18 was a wave off by the LSO. The approaching aircraft was high/fast so Paddles waved him off. The next pass was better but not great. He grabbed the 1 wire, which means he was slow/low. Or was diving for the deck to make sure he grabbed at least one of the wires. Don’t blame the pilot in that weather. Looked pretty close to 10/10.
Great little collection, thank you/.
As a former commercial pilot , I can’t even imagine the conditions the F18 pilot was facing.
The f-18 was carrying out whats called a case 3 landing circling around the ship in foul weather when the deck isnt visible losing altitude each time to gain visibily a little bit at a time , Seen this done many times its a dangerous situation !
They're flying a ICLS path. Nothing to do with gaining visibility.
Case 3 is the only correct part of that statement. In fact, he was on a precision approach straight in and at 3/4 mi, he transitions to an outside scan and visual approach. He isn’t able to see the ship (“Clara”) and is talked down by the LSOs on the flight deck that are giving him glideslope and lineup calls to talk him into the wires. There is no circling to gain visibility. I have nearly 600 traps on 6 different carriers and have some landings like this.
The last plane looked like it was trying to land on a damn waterslide!!!
I watch lots of Aviation videos , Most of them just put together from other peoples clips , What i like about youre channel , is ive never seen any of this before , Its all NEW ! ,Good job Mate 👌👍✈🛩 ,
Thank you
The thumbnail doctoring is particularly egregious on this one. 0:38
I agree. A bit misleading
👍🐿👍thank you for the videos. Much appreciated.
I was gonna call it December weather edition... then it's bloody sunny in Birmingham!
It's Always Sunny in Birmingham!
They should make a TV show named like that.
the sun shone in Brummie on a Thursday last year.
Checking in from Austin, TX - at 11:00, it was 71°; a bit ago, it was 62°; dropping still. Sunny and windy.
Surprised that more Airports don’t have crosswind runways.They do here at MSP.
I’m guessing it’s planning issues in the UK, where we’re just more squished. Extra runways for London airports have been discussed for years and we still don’t have them
Birmingham is incredibly geographically constrained.
Carrier landings have such a small target and need to be done at a high speed so if anything goes wrong they can get back up. So it's always better to go around and have another go if you're at the point of having a bad landing, doubly so with that weather thrown into the mix.
Carrier landing...
First pass was just to find the bloody thing.
Second was to land on it!
Wow 😬
2:43 Ah, the Rolling Hills of Gatwick!
Birmingham surely....??
It's BHX & it's mostly camera foreshortening that makes that runway seem bumpier than average.
Bloody Hell, it’s Birmingham!
The carrier landing that went so horribly wrong made me wonder: why do fighter jets appear to lack an "auto-land" or "autopilot" feature? Seems like it could be especially helpful in days with such abominable weather?
Last go around looks like it **might** have been error by the PM. It seems like he was WOW hard enough that the boards should have been up. That being said, Airbus's insistence that no ailerons be used in crosswind landings is absolutely ridiculous. I get using crab-to-kick in the flare to prevent engine strikes, but no way you're going to fly the downwind wing after the spoilers deploy.
Great carrier landing in horrible conditions by Super hornet pilot. The Iceland A321, looking at the weather radar, could possibly have waited, I would. But hope all was well. Nice compilation by host. The later A321 bouncing looked shocking, possible damage. Not a nice ride.
Carrier landing goes wrong? Seems to me he nailed it. There's nothing "wrong" about going around and trying again. That's how we stay alive.
@1:33 That Airbus went Boeing! off the runway.
Congratulations to the F-18 pilot! US Naval aviation is #1 in the world. The very best pilots...
As for the A321neo that got struck by lightning on takeoff; didn't they check the weather radar prior to departure?
I would have never attempted departing into RED...What were they thinking?
Captain, B757
(22,000+ hours in 42 years of flying, 7 jet the ratings, etc.)
Do airlines get charge extra when they go around ? I guess for some busy airports whether you land correctly or not it takes an extra landing spot no ?
DAYUMMM... that 747 landing was in some heavy soup. I was an active pilot many moons ago and flew the two planes owned by our company to our job sites throughout the region. I've been in some thick soup, but never landed in that level of minimums. But we didn't have Cat III equipment onboard our planes.
Nothing like taking off into a thunderstorm to cause a lightning strike. Send to remedial training!
Nice viewing 👌
We still owe you two secs of avatation
Exactly 3:00... bliss
This is why navy pilots are in high demand in the civilian world.
That 747 was on rollout before it touched down 😭
Flying can be so so challenging.
2:00 King of the Hill vibes
Notice that the naval pilot was never shown stopping!
how about heads up display helmets for the landing controllers that show the corridor the plane needs to be on for a safe landing?
Later that night it’s calm and Turkish A321 is still trying to land… 🙃
1:40 Turkish Airlines now hired by Ryanair..
Turkish Air was trying to impersonate the Navy pilot from the first clip. Badly.
you are stoned 😂
Geetings from 🇹🇷 😂😂 MOST DESTINATIONS
Landing on a moving runway ! In the rain !! At night !!!!
Just bad ass pilots no matter what they fly
Did that Hornet actually land the second time? cuz I didn't see any cables moving.......
I was wondering the same thing..I also did not see tailhook grab any arrester cables. Yikes!
Etihad: From Abu Dhabi to the end of the runway.
@3 Minutes of Aviation there was a nose gear only landing (main gear failed to lower) at KECP on Thursday 02Jan25.
Nothing wrong here. Just another day at work.
Ahh don't think the Etihad needed the reverse thrusters for that one.
Again this weird effect in our way to fast world: …
Oh, 3 Full minutes long?!?. … then: …
What? It’s still over =/ … I wanna see more! 😄👍🏼‼️✌🏼
Isn't anyone surprised this A321 co-pilot is hand-holding a cellphone in one of the most critical phases of the flight, the take-off?
OK-3 ? 0:36 I thought it's super dangerous to trap the 1st cable but this FA-18 pilot landed miles before the arresting cables 😱 & grabbed the #1 cable
Especially in bad weather with the flight-deck pitching in rough seas
Thats why the LSO is yelling "Power! POWER! POWER!"
@MattH-wg7ou They ALWAYS go full throttle when they hit the deck. It's in case the hook misses and they go off the end, the engines are already spooled up and delivering thrust for flight - better than falling into the sea waiting for power.
F-18 portion: can't tell if the deck has 3 or 4 wires. The LSO waved him off the first time: look to the left on the video at the :24 point. Red lights = wave off. Second attempt: repeated power calls, followed by a taxi 1 wire.
The Turkish A-321: nobody taught that pilot how to "wing down/top rudder" a cross wind decrab.
That A321 captain was a silly boy looking at his ND display. Big no no in the FCTM and FCOM
The A321 was Saint Elmos fire I believe
This plane failed to take off AT LOW SPEED for unknown reasons 😂😂
Fly Navy: the best always have.
That f18, whew.
Something better than that carrier landing? This, from Wikipedia: Among the anecdotes of navigation by bioluminescence is one recounted by the Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, who as a Navy pilot had found his way back to his aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La when his navigation systems failed. Turning off his cabin lights, he saw the glowing wake of the ship, and was able to fly to it and land safely.
1:01: "Hobby! I've been hit"
expert
Damn check engine light came on lol
Did the F-18 pilot snag an arresting cable on his second attempt? It looked like he made contact with the deck soon enough to snag a cable, but I didn't see any indication that one of the cables was actually snagged.
Did the F/A-18 bolter on the second attempt or did he trap?
Des situations difficiles 🙂