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The article reads almost like he did it on purpose...
Was it on the wrong side of a red line?
exNavyOffRec
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This sounds very similar to the accident on the Nimitz in 1988
The Admiral’s F-14 pilot son that shot down the USAF F-4?
Reserve Captain Dorsey?
The F-4 pilot went through our PIT squadron for a T-38 instructor checkout ~’95. Told the story one night in the bar. Amazing.
He was pretty jacked up from the ejection, and I heard years later his injured were not being kind to him.
The fact that the post-shoot down cover up and subsequent investigation went the way it did was quite an indictment on the leadership involved, in my opinion.
No. The '88 NIM incident was an A-7 being downloaded of 20MM during NX maintenance in a TOW spot up on the starboard side of the forward flight deck. Won't go into details, but gun inadvertently fired about 7 rounds directly into fully loaded tanker-configured A-6, starting a huge flight deck fire. Two fatalities. Numerous strike aircraft. Some pushed over the side, some hangared for post-cruise offload. Bad night.
exNavyOffRec
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I arrived to the Nimitz a while later and many of the people I worked with/for were there when it happened and said the 1MC announcements were like they had never heard before.
I am guessing you were there during that time.
Not to mention the fact that the cheeseball was allowed to serve in the Reserve and was nearly promoted to O7/RDML.
More photos and a few more details in this link.
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