Carrier Landing Goes Wrong

[@RomNYC]

Title reads "landing goes wrong". Reality: lands plane masterfully...

[@jonnie2bad]

he caught the 1 wire and was on the brink of a cut pass

[@ronduncan9527]

He always titles his videos wrong and dramatic!

[@johnt.4947]

Well said!!

[@_purge9488]

@@jonnie2bad not being perfect and going horribly wrong are wildly different things. Stop defending click baiting, it’s annoying, and insulting.

[@Coverswithchords1]

When you're here to watch desaster and just get to see sth. exciting. :-(

[@b1lleman]

That F/A-18 landing was out of this world. Difficulty level extreme. impressive.

[@iceman9678]

It was amazing. That guy on deck should get off his phone and pay attention. 🤣

[@RonaldPottol]

Night carrier landings are probably the most difficult thing humans do routinely.

[@b1lleman]

@@RonaldPottol agreed. I'd do a hail mary every time in this circumstances.

[@JZsBFF]

Those guys have huge brass balls. I'm amazed that the planes with them in it even get off the ground.

[@Snyder9e]

i don't think he actually stuck the landing on the second try, would like to know if me made it at all

[@Gauge1LiveSteam]

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.

[@XXSkunkWorksXX]

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!"

[@beefgoat80]

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.

[@kellywilson8440]

Probably the best aviators around , Especially the carrier born pilots hands down !

[@ChrisW-n4y]

On old boss flew A4s and used to say “why would I be worried? We flew 400 knots at forty feet.”

[@joso5554]

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.

[@ChrisW-n4y]

@ effing A, Bubba

[@mikegreen2214]

John McCain was a pretty terrible naval aviator, though.

[@markmonse5285]

First time I've seen a bolted in full afterburner, blowing rain off the deck. Impressive!

[@Rufus6540]

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!!

[@freedomforever6718]

Imagine that foggy stormy carrier landing at night.

[@Ryarios]

Imagine the tin cans that had to follow that carrier around in that stuff…

[@C420sailor]

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! 😂😂😂

[@XXSkunkWorksXX]

'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

[@CerberusTenshi]

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.

[@jiubboatman9352]

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.

[@C420sailor]

This is fact.

[@dougcargill6730]

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.

[@patolt1628]

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.

[@Alex-nr5et]

That F-18 landing was incredible, the weather conditions were terrible.

[@TruckingToPlease]

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.

[@TexJester-no8th]

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.

[@TexJester-no8th]

Oh - then once I got out, I took up trucking in 1984 - just retired after 40 years, most of it flatbedding..

[@richardpark3054]

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.

[@lawsonic]

Carrier landing didnt go wrong, just did it safely on second attempt

[@jonnie2bad]

a one wire is not a safe landing for navy standards

[@_purge9488]

@@jonnie2badnot being perfect and going horribly wrong are wildly different things. Stop defending click baiting, it’s annoying, and insulting.

[@GEODUCK9]

​@@jonnie2badgiven the weather, any safe landing is a safe landing and if they dont like the 1 wire perhaps dont send the jet out 🙆

[@CrimeMastarGoGo]

I like your compilations but the titles are getting increasingly clickbait. Strictly speaking they are correct. But misleading.

[@MrStkrdknmibalz9799]

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.

[@bentonroach9528]

This comment makes me feel better. I never could trap on that 8 bit POS either.

[@MrStkrdknmibalz9799]

@@bentonroach9528 It's actually harder in the game...at least in real life you get more than one chance to land it. 🤣

[@kjw79]

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 🇨🇦🛬

[@rhuntington3]

Those first two... Holy heck!!!

[@Flies2FLL]

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....

[@XXSkunkWorksXX]

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!)

[@kevinfairclough4619]

That Turkish Airlines A321 neo looked a bit sketchy. I could feel that bump from from my sofa!

[@MohJam]

F/A - 18 "Pucker Factor 10!" Nice work.

[@rharbarenko]

Did that Hornet actually land the second time? cuz I didn't see any cables moving.......

[@shirlthegirl631]

I was wondering the same thing..I also did not see tailhook grab any arrester cables. Yikes!

[@dperreno]

Lightning in sub-freezing weather is somewhat unusual!

[@MeppyMan]

It’s actually not. It’s just much harder to observe when it’s snowing etc.

[@kellywilson8440]

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 !

[@Dyson_Cyberdynesystems]

They're flying a ICLS path. Nothing to do with gaining visibility.

[@chrisridebike8]

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.

[@jamestheredd]

As a videographer, filming that first moment would be incredible... but also terrifying.

[@MrYogurt-r9f]

Every aviation nerd…. Waits for this guy to post. 😂

[@sb_sfo]

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?

[@em1osmurf]

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!

[@chriskroenung4825]

call the ball maverick

[@desmond-hawkins]

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.

[@kevinfairclough4619]

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.

[@justinklasens31]

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.

[@wiwn00]

Cant imagine the pressure on the f-18 pilot. No way back, no mistake. Crazy!!

[@romainv8755]

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 ?

[@BigDale]

Surprised that more Airports don’t have crosswind runways.They do here at MSP.

[@mattscarf]

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

[@DrBlood-cq2cm]

“Call the ball” “What ball?”

[@dlmyrs]

“Call the ball” “Clara” (means don’t see the ball) LSOs: “We see your landing lights, keep it coming.”

[@Michaelthekiwi]

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.

[@armatian]

F-18 didnt tried twice, he used afterburner to clear the landing area first.

[@lawsonic]

Question.. seeing runway on last clip, its like ripples, ups and down not flat.. is that a perspective thing or actually made like that

[@amazer747]

Those are the local mountains in Birmingham. They're for real.

[@Horstroad]

You have to keep in mind that runways are a couple of kilometers long. This makes elevation changes look exaggerated when looking straight down the runway from lol level with a long zoom. The elevation changes are actually there, but it's mostly a perspective thing.

[@Jimbobthebarbarian]

@3 Minutes of Aviation there was a nose gear only landing (main gear failed to lower) at KECP on Thursday 02Jan25.

[@theaviationastronomychannel]

1:40 Turkish Airlines now hired by Ryanair..

[@TankEnMate]

Turkish Air was trying to impersonate the Navy pilot from the first clip. Badly.

[@LaithMoshtaq-u9c]

you are stoned 😂

[@GIZALARF]

How many landing attempts do pilots get before they have to divert?

[@_purge9488]

Depends on what operations we’re talking about. If it’s GA (general aviation), legally you need to carry (at cruise) +30min for daytime, +45min for nighttime, or distance to an alternate +45min if IFR. More often than not, the decision being made is how soon they should divert to an alternate airport. With better winds / visibility / instrument approach minimums. You’d have put yourself in a bad situation if you’re stuck trying the same difficult landing over and over until you fall out of the sky.

[@shabnamganjeh5713]

As a former commercial pilot , I can’t even imagine the conditions the F18 pilot was facing.

[@bconn8452]

The last plane looked like it was trying to land on a damn waterslide!!!

[@dashin96]

The thumbnail doctoring is particularly egregious on this one. 0:38

[@christopherch7307]

👍🐿👍thank you for the videos. Much appreciated.

[@gerryk101]

Credit to these pilots 🫡

[@gus473]

2:43 Ah, the Rolling Hills of Gatwick!

[@christophergorham9678]

Birmingham surely....??

[@nightjarflying]

It's BHX & it's mostly camera foreshortening that makes that runway seem bumpier than average.

[@Daimo83]

I was gonna call it December weather edition... then it's bloody sunny in Birmingham!

[@VanderlyndenJengold]

It's Always Sunny in Birmingham! They should make a TV show named like that.

[@amazer747]

the sun shone in Brummie on a Thursday last year.

[@TexJester-no8th]

Checking in from Austin, TX - at 11:00, it was 71°; a bit ago, it was 62°; dropping still. Sunny and windy.

[@zombiedaunicorn2105]

Exactly 3:00... bliss

[@F14foreverF14]

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

[@MattH-wg7ou]

Thats why the LSO is yelling "Power! POWER! POWER!"

[@TexJester-no8th]

@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.

[@TransferAir]

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! 😄👍🏼‼️✌🏼

[@ChrisHops22]

2:20 - is it an optical illusion or is the runway really that bumpy?

[@nightjarflying]

BHX - camera foreshortening along a 4km runway exaggerates the waviness - you're looking at a normal civilian runway. Except for salt flats all runways have bumps & waves - it's unnecessary & very expensive to make & maintain a 100 metre wide flat surface.

[@mattscarf]

Are we allowed to listen to ATC radio transmissions in the UK now?

[@coasterforcedivvie]

2:00 King of the Hill vibes

[@BGFutureBG]

That 747 was on rollout before it touched down 😭

[@WilliamRussell-e7s]

We still owe you two secs of avatation

[@AnimalisMD]

It takes some big cajónes to land a plane on a rolling ship in bad weather!

[@RonaldPottol]

It beats the alternative.

[@TheImperialChannel]

*Pretty windy episode...🌬*

[@lewiskemp5893]

Landing on a moving runway ! In the rain !! At night !!!! Just bad ass pilots no matter what they fly

[@almostthere100]

A-321 makes a slight left turn after liftoff INTO the worst of the wx off the end of the runway?!?! 😵‍💫 SHOCKING result! 😬

[@Ryarios]

0:08. He’s lucky. One or two more attempts and he would have had to start looking for an alternate airport… . . . . (Yes, that was a joke.)

[@gordonbryan8381]

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.

[@kwd-2023]

Ahh don't think the Etihad needed the reverse thrusters for that one.

[@jcn115]

Where are the 0:12 seconds that you owe us from the last video?

[@humbertoamorim8130]

Clip 2: shouldn't the pilot recording actually be flying/on standby especially during take off?

[@jamesmurray3948]

With that radar pic why not turn right after takeoff?

[@thetruthbehindplanes]

best clip is first. by the way, there is a copycat channel called 5 minutes of aviation trying to copy you (and failing). Unless you gave permission, I think this is copying.

[@EazyDuz18]

snitch lol and its perfectly legal

[@_purge9488]

Do you think this channel sources all of its footage? It’s fair use, not theft.

[@thetruthbehindplanes]

3 mins gets permission.5 mins just takes

[@Skunkman-w5x]

This plane failed to take off AT LOW SPEED for unknown reasons 😂😂

[@warrentrout]

Nothing like taking off into a thunderstorm to cause a lightning strike. Send to remedial training!

[@Supernaut2000]

Birmingham sure has a lot of bad cross winds...poor runway orientation?

[@힐만94]

1:01 the wrath of thor 😅

[@bcmfin]

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.

[@JZsBFF]

1:17 "From Abu to the world"... but not today.

[@mattscarf]

Because they were going back to Abu ;)

[@JZsBFF]

@@mattscarf lol

[@joso5554]

The F18 pilot is a god. Uranium balls. 😮😮

[@Johnnyfinneganjr]

Only required two attempts to land on the courier? In my opinion that was excellent.

[@MultiPurposeReviewer]

So I have a stupid question: on those landings where they touched down and THEN went around, why? If your ass is on the ground, why are you going to take it back off the ground and go around? The only thing I can think of is if you touch down too far down the runway to safely stop in time, but if your sink rate was too high on approach, wouldn't you be touching down earlier, not later? Why go around at that point? Yeah, it was a hard landing, but you HAVE landed at that point.

[@user-mt6yy1lu2z]

Does anyone knows why they decided to take off the carrier even though the bad weather was coming?

[@Horstroad]

War doesn't wait for good weather. All conditions have to be trained

[@FKpixel]

Later that night it’s calm and Turkish A321 is still trying to land… 🙃

[@garyb6219]

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.

[@adb012]

Comments for everyone: 1- F-18's landing was way too short. Ideally you should capture the 2nd or 3rd cable and this one touched down well ahead of the 1st cable after reaching the edge of the deck at a very low altitude. Risky. 2- Lightning hitting a plane among the most exaggerated things in the popular imagination. They happen very offer (average once per year per airplane) and, as we can see in this video, they are pretty boring. The instruments didn't even flicker. The fun begins after landing when maintenance has to get involved. 3- Etihad rejected take-off: no comment. 4- Turkish go-around: Title says "touches down at a high sink rate forcing the crew to go around". The go-around was almost certainly initiated before the touchdown. 5- 747 autoland: Beautiful! 6- A little of left aileron / bank may have helped.

[@akalidal8174]

Pretty dicey and unwise for A320 Neo to take off in that kind of stormhead painted on their weather radar. Delay takeoff until the storm passed. The stormy condition was fraught with danger of windshear, microburst, hail, etc

[@kevinrivera1492]

Damn check engine light came on lol

[@OrionWebster]

That was a good decision by the F/A18 pilot to do a 'go- around.' The Arbus A321 at 1:32 was caused by low level wind sheer, not a high sink rate

[@Horstroad]

You can see the nose drop shortly before touch down, which causes a higher sink rate. Wind shear causes a high sink rate too, but this would drop the whole aircraft, not just the nose.

[@videocritical]

Why is the airbus pilot filming on take off?!

[@puterausman7682]

This is why navy pilots are in high demand in the civilian world.

[@jepolch]

I once had to do two go-arounds to land EA-3B on USS Kitty Hawk in South China Sea. Hairy.

[@gilvietor1918]

That f18, whew.

[@rockets4kids]

1:11 Maybe the pilot realized he should have spooled up the engines with the wheel brakes applied?

[@angeledduirbonesu1989]

Not only the title, now also the thumbnail?

[@TimAndyMik]

Want to know what a "real man" is? Watch that gentleman land that jet on a boat in the middle of the water in a shitty storm. That's a "real man".

[@_purge9488]

There are plenty of female pilots. “Want to know what a real pilot is? That’s a real pilot” Fixed it for you.

[@resolute1306]

The carrier landing did not go wrong. It was by the book.

[@le0o2]

0:48 i hope some lessons learned. A dont film B maybe delay Takeoff? C if no maybe request a heading? bad decicion making. and D dont upload that video ...

[@kennethmorgan7949]

All i saw was great pilots doing thier jobs

[@klingonradar]

1:20 SQUIRREL

[@whisper7637]

Bumpy Birmingham

[@clqudy4750]

Why anyone lands at Birmingham is beyond me. If I saw BHX on the manifest Id just say Nope!

[@unsatisfiedfans7422]

One does not simply, Make a not clickbait-y video title

[@davefoord1259]

If navy guys can do it it cant be that hard

[@secularsunshine9036]

*Let the Sunshine In...*

[@AmonRa33]

Carrier landings are incredible. Such speed with such high requirements.