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    Quick work...

    The US Navy, using the best available assets, quickly recovered an FA/18 fighter which had blown overboard in heavy seas only a month ago...
    The aircraft was recovered from a depth of approximately 9,500 feet by a team from Task Force (CTF) 68, Naval Sea Systems Command's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV), Harry S. Truman, Naval Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic, and U.S. Sixth Fleet embarked on the multi-purpose construction vessel (MPV) Everest.
    That's impressive speed to conduct such an operation in only 27 days...I'm sure that less friendly nations were hoping to do the job themselves, thus learning what we know......Ben
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    I like it.

    The Chinese would be unwise to take on our Navy.

    The Russians? Naw, they'd say, "We have no need to find our planes," - 'cause they are currently missing dozens of them.

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    My question is how did they let a plane blow off the deck in the first place..... Someone screwed that pooch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phillbo View Post
    My question is how did they let a plane blow off the deck in the first place..... Someone screwed that pooch.
    Microburst?......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phillbo View Post
    My question is how did they let a plane blow off the deck in the first place..... Someone screwed that pooch.
    It is not an isolated case. I can think of several times it has happened before.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    It is not an isolated case. I can think of several times it has happened before.
    It happened many times in the Pacific war, even when aircraft were properly lashed to the deck...The IJN lost many aircraft below the flight deck which were also lashed down......Ben
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    Sounds like that pooch could be a bit sore....

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    Just think about the rolling decks in heavy seas, add a little wind, and you have a disaster just waiting to happen.
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    I was thinking about this the other day myself. I was wondering if they have skilled recovery divers on board at all times or whether they imported them from another ship.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    I was thinking about this the other day myself. I was wondering if they have skilled recovery divers on board at all times or whether they imported them from another ship.
    They are specialists brought in when and where needed...They have their own equipment, and their own ships...The recovery specialists can be flown in separately if it is determined that the equipment needed to accomplish the recovery in a safe and timely manner is available onsite...But once there, if they determine they need their own resources, it is brought to them......Ben
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