# AIRCRAFT CARRIER LANDING MISHAPS, ACCIDENTS & CRASHES 1970s U.S. NAVY TRAINING FILM 9002

Landing a plane on the deck of aircraft carrier is one of the most dangerous and amazing daily activity facing pilots and deck crew. This amazing training film graphically depicts various aircraft landing disasters. It also instructs pilots how to avoid them and what emergency ejection or ditching procedures to follow in case they do occur. A barrier landing, called for when a pilot has a landing gear problem, is shown as is the set-up of the barrier. Many crashes in this film were captured by the Pilot Landing Aid Television system, known as PLAT, so quality is not optimal. While the image are low resolution, they enable incidents to be studied in some detail. The impact and the lessons learned from these plane crashes are dramatic and serve as excellent training for new pilots. Ships seen in the film are the nuclear carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and the conventional USS Boxer (CV-21). Planes seen in the film are: F-8 Crusader amongst many others. The film stresses the critical role of the Landing Signal Officer (LSO), who monitors and guides landings, issues wave-offs when needed, and ensures pilots follow the “meatball” visual landing aid rather than instinctively flying to the deck. Night landings, vertigo, and misjudged ejections are shown as especially hazardous. The overall message is clear: carrier aviation is inherently dangerous, but strict adherence to training, procedures, and early corrective actions can greatly reduce the risk of accidents and ensure mission…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1968
- Runtime: 25 min
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/CarrierLandingMishaps)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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