Eight people were injured.
During landing on flight deck of US Navy aircraft carrier “Eisenhower” aircraft airborne early warning E-2C Hawkeye fell overboard and nearly drowned.
The plane went down only because of the reaction of the pilots, who a few moments and removed the brake hook and went to take off.
The incident happened a year ago, but the record was released only now.
The investigation of the incident, the experts found that the sailors of the aircraft carrier just missed two steps in the instructions and properly set retarder of a braking device, which brake the cable snapped during landing, injuring 8 people.
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