Carrier cable breaks!!!

[ririck]

That one kid paid attention on double dutch day in gym class, ha.

 

[steeltoe]

Holy shit! I figured that happened sometimes, but I've never seen a video of it before!

Arresting Cables are changed at a sent interval so that this doesn't happen but the nature of landing aircraft on a ship have many things that we can't control but one we can control we do so in a way to prevent mishaps.

 

[darkcrayz]

taht is nuts, holy shit. just craziness.

 

[Q8_Shelby]

Wow

 

[04SVTF]

 

[CobraBob]

Still can't believe the guy was able to jump over the cable. That in and of itself has to be a miracle.

 

[ShortThrow50]

Having served on a carrier in the Navy, I know all about the dangers. But this is one you rarely hear about. Very scary for those involved.

I too served on a carrier (USS Abraham Lincoln CVN -72) and can say that those arresting cables are not small at all. And the force behind it as it snaps is unbelevable. Luckily no one died....but your right.....he did have his head on a swivle as they say and was able to show his jump rope skills.

:beer: Im a plankowner on USS John C Stennis CVN-74
I dont know how that works now though becuase I saw my carrier was sunk in the movie Transformers 2. I guess know decom ceremony for me

 

[VenomousDSG]

You should ALWAYS be alert when your on a carrier deck. That guy in yellow was a ****in stud, sucks what happened to the others though.

 

[mkb116]

I watched the guy in the yellow like 10 times, simply amazing that he was able to, and had the brains to just double hop like that. Especially since the cable was going 100+mph and it looked like he was looking away from the cable.

Amazing.