What if The Arresting Wire Snaps During Landing on Aircraft Carrier

It doesn't happen everyday that an arresting cable snaps on an aircraft carrier, and when it does, it is extremely dangerous. But why would the cable snap? It's #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT

Music:
Public Tragedy - MARTEN MOSES
Fire and Brimstone - WILL HARRISON
The Higher We Get - WILL HARRISON
The Bayou - TIGERBLOOD JEWEL

00:00 Intro
00:51 Arresting Cables
02:28 Purchase Cables
03:21 Arresting Engines
05:39 Why Why Did The Wire SNAP?!
07:19 Land-Based Arresting Systems

Footage:
US Department of Defense

Note: "The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement."

[hieronymusnervig]

I have so much respect for those wires. I learned early on in my life to never get near a rope that's being tensioned by a moving vessel.

[Kreeos]

Those E2 pilots have some amazing skills if they were able to get the plane back in the air after that. From the footage, it looked like they had lost too much speed to recovery but damn, they managed it like champs.

[chuckaddison]

Prehaps the best explaination of the arresting gear system outside of the Navy.
The pilots were able to save the plane because as soon as they hit the deck they advance the throttles to full power, just in case the wire breaks, the hook bounces, or they just flat out miss.

[dab_yeetus]

I love the guy jumping over the cable ❤️ your days are numbered Bowser!

[davidhodge]

That guy had great skills. He jumped that cable like a champ.

[Kiyoone]

Those pilots really deserved that medal... Impressive save of the aircraft, they must teach that wow

[nickauclair]

I didn't think it was easy but I can't believe how complex it is and how well versed I am in this procedure.

[carportchronicles]

Very good job describing this system! I used to give public tours abord the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) between 2004 and 2006 and you did a better job than I did.

[lapdmetropolitandivisionfa]

That happens rarely, sometimes moderately

[jgetscensored]

Browning was my Divo. Cool guy. Very professional. He was on that plane. It’s crazy how small the Navy is, while also being so large.

[zhanyiduo]

The footage of the cable sweeping the crews, is not the same incident from the hawkeye. The footage is from another F18 snapping cable incident, which includes the “jump rope champion” crew who was able to avoid two swepts.

[captain_commenter]

“Oh snap!” -random guy

*“Oh snap.”* -Flight Deck Crew Member

[fjeezy]

One time, a street cleaner drove past me. I didn’t notice until the last second, when i jumped as high as I could, up and over the spraying water. I felt a little bit bad-ass...until I saw a guy do the same thing in this video, except instead of jumping over water, he did it with a much faster, deadlier steel cable.

Needless to say, I no longer feel so bad-ass😂

[joeg]

Nice. I worked in airfield management in the Air Force and got to see the a couple of aircraft (f16s) take the cable because of emergencies. We worked closely with the guys who maintained them so got to see everything and how it worked. Pretty cool stuff. A lot of people that didn't drive on the airfield much were afraid to drive over them. You can actually drive over them as much as you want no problem, I'd just try to avoid the rubber doughnuts. Anyways... Seeing this brought back a lot of memories. I got out 18 years ago

[hungVN]

Landing on aircraft carrier is one the hardest and most dangerous task for pilot 💯

[inCawHoots]

My squadron was attached to that boat at that time. I talked to one of the guys on that deployment and he told me he was just feet away from getting whacked by the cable. It was the only time he actually shit his pants on the boat.

[lookronjon]

When I was a kid I used to go visit my dad at work on the Franklin D Roosevelt CV 42. He took me into the arrestor gear room. The cylinders looked like they were made of brass and the set up looks just like what was described. I believe there were two of them in there. I was on a four day three night dependence cruise from Norfork Virginia to Mayport Florida on its last active run.

[LyfrMusic]

Always impressed by Such level of engineering to make so much thrust powered airplanes come to halt just like that!!

[nonstopdude]

the editing you did feels like some new "weekly of not what you think" discovery show. ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT :D

[unknwn]

Love your content man, sooo interesting to watch and you don't sound annoying.