Holly Molly Batman that was close!

[Kenan]

Sorry if a repost:

[topol-m]

It is a repost. There is a Photos/Videos thread in Military and Aviation: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=840584&postcount=2688

[Frazer]

So, seen that in the other thread people didn't go in to what went wrong there, I guess it would be good to analyze this video here.

 

What do you people think went wrong?

 

My guess is that it is an unexperienced pilot in his/her first few carrier landings with the Su-33.

It looks like the pilot is first too high and to correct he/she puts the trottle back too far, resulting in a too steep glide slope. After throttling up, the pilot waits for the engines to spool up again and has no choise but to pull up the nose while waiting for power.

 

All in all it looks like a major mistake, I think the pilot should have recognized the first mistake and abort the landing in an earlier stage.

[Kenan]

^^Can you just imagine what would have happened had the arrestor hook hit one of the wires? The plane would have flipped backwards and the pilot would've been awarded (posthumously or not) a Fail Award Of The Year!

[tflash]

I would think he flew much to *fast* in the first place!

[G3]

Frazer, i think that sounds good enough for me.

Kenan, always love your sense of humor, i think you meant slam forward ?

[Kenan]

Kenan, always love your sense of humor, i think you meant slam forward ?

 

Actually, yeah, it seems it was most likely it would have slammed forward instead flipped backwards. Too bad though. It would have been one helluva flip!:D