Accidental Missle firing

[dhfactory]

http://www.farkin.net/viewpic.php?image=1e4d142da6692668858c57145785e080.jpg

This missle wouldn't be armed would it?

Does anyone know how this sort of thing happens?

and how often?

-Sean

[Fargin]

Broken arrow?

[Argyll]

This is maybe the all aspect heat seeking Sidewinder,that requires a tone lock for it it hit a target,armed,probably,it may be the type that is armed on release,the fact that it's moving along the deck,it looks like the missile may have dropped off the rail,which is very surprising indeed,maybe the pilot fired it by mistake,I'll bet the deckcrew didn't care whether it was armed or not!!!!

[ArmedPacifist]

This is photoshopped.

[Seoulstriker]

This is photoshopped.

no, it's not photoshopped.

[Jester23]

it doesn't look like the missle was fired....more like the f-18 landed and the missle dropped off the rail and slid across the deck. if you look close, there is no smoke trail off the back of the missle nor does it look the like the plane is sitting on the catapult.

my two cents....

[Seoulstriker]

it doesn't look like the missle was fired....more like the f-18 landed and the missle dropped off the rail and slid across the deck. if you look close, there is no smoke trail off the back of the missle nor does it look the like the plane is sitting on the catapult.

my two cents....

yeah, the hornet was landing. there is a smoke trail, i think.

[FallenAngel]

What the jaster said. The plane landed, caught a wire and stopped....the missle kept going :D

As for it being armed, I don't know, although if it hit someone I'm sure it wouldn't have mattered.

[NcDeuce]

http://www.farkin.net/viewpic.php?image=1e4d142da6692668858c57145785e080.jpg

This guy has to be thinking, "What the ****?!"

[Uncle Chô]

Yeap. The plane came too high. The standart procedure is to make a "bolter" (full throttle and wave off), but the arresting hook caught the last wire. The impact was very hard -the plane almost fall from the sky- and the AIM-9 unlocked from the tips rail.

You can see from the running deckcrew this is a serious situation :)

I don't think the IR seaker could detonate if there is no rocket ignition (not sure) but a "free flying" missile on a flight deck is lethal for anyone or anything on his way !

And no, this is not a fake.

[Seoulstriker]

Yeap. The plane came too high. The standart procedure is to make a "bolter" (full throttle and wave off), but the arresting hook caught the last wire. The impact was very hard -the plane almost fall from the sky- and the AIM-9 unlocked from the tips rail.

You can see from the running deckcrew this is a serious situation :)

I don't think the IR seaker could detonate if there is no rocket ignition (not sure) but a "free flying" missile on a flight deck is lethal for anyone or anything on his way !

And no, this is not a fake.

that makes perfect sense. but did the wire bring him down? was he trying to pull up and accelerate?

[Uncle Chô]

In such a case, someone made a mistake. At first, the pilot came probably too high and the LSO (Landing Ship Officers) might have told him to wave off because he was not on the right track. Was he short on fuel that he could not afford a second pattern ? Navy pilots used to say that carrier landing is a "controlled" crash landing ! Everything goes so fast, you have no time to think, you must act like you've been told. The difference between life and death is a matter of second. Everybody get lucky that day !

Except the plane perhaps. For example, the Blue Angels F-18A that is on the outside display at the Naval Aviation Museum (NAS Pensacola) is not a "real" Blue Angel aircraft but a repainted standart F-18 that suffered from a too hard carrier landing and was subsequently written off. From the outside you could see nothing but if you carefully look under the wing root, you can notice the bent aluminium skin :|

[Seoulstriker]

In such a case, someone made a mistake. At first, the pilot came probably too high and the LSO (Landing Ship Officers) might have told him to wave off because he was not on the right track. Was he short on fuel that he could not afford a second pattern ? Navy pilots used to say that carrier landing is a "controlled" crash landing ! Everything goes so fast, you have no time to think, you must act like you've been told. The difference between life and death is a matter of second. Everybody get lucky that day !

Except the plane perhaps. For example, the Blue Angels F-18A that is on the outside display at the Naval Aviation Museum (NAS Pensacola) is not a "real" Blue Angel aircraft but a repainted standart F-18 that suffered from a too hard carrier landing and was subsequently written off. From the outside you could see nothing but if you carefully look under the wing root, you can notice the bent aluminium skin :|

http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/fa18/video/trapotsmov.htm

[He219]

that makes perfect sense. but did the wire bring him down? was he trying to pull up and accelerate?
They always come in under full-power, just in case.

[Seoulstriker]

that makes perfect sense. but did the wire bring him down? was he trying to pull up and accelerate?
They always come in under full-power, just in case.

they don't come in at full power, but they go to full power once they hit the deck.

[Vance]

Yeah, if they miss the wire.

[Breacher]

Here's what more than likely happened:

1. The aircraft landing jarred the missile hard enough to over come the securing 'Finger'.

2. The missile did NOT recieve a 'Firing signal' due to the fact that the motor was never ignited (notice the motor cover is still intact)thus allowing it to skip happily off the deck into the sea.