
WATCH: Aircraft Nearly Crashes Into Sea During Landing Aboard USS Eisenhower
A brand new video launched by the U.S. Navy exhibits the second an E-2C Hawkeye plane practically plunged into the water from the deck of the USS Eisenhower after an arresting cable snapped throughout a touchdown on March 18, 2016.
Details of the incident together with video have been launched Friday by the Virginia-Pilot following a Freedom of Information Act request.
The video, which has since gone viral with greater than 1.6 million views, exhibits the terrifying second the arresting cable snaps, inflicting the plane to overshoot the runway and fall beneath the Eisenhower’s touchdown deck, solely to look moments later because it climbed again into view.
The Virginian-Pilot experiences that eight sailors have been injured within the incident. The U.S. Navy has blamed the accident on human error and an improperly programmed valve, the paper says.