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CARRIER LANDING WITH A PROBLEM
Anyone have any details? Thanks to the many who forwarded details - here are a few remarks. Don L. wrote This incident began when the BN's (Bombardier/Navigator) ejection seat suddenly fired while the aircraft (an A6 'Intruder') was cruising at 8000 ft. The BN went through the canopy and stuck ther, half in and half out. The pilot immediately descended and made a fast carrier landing. What appears to be fabric wrapped around the aircraft's tail is the BN's parachute, which actually prevented him from smashing forward into the jagged canopy glass when the aircraft engaged the arrester wire. Surprisingly, the BN suffered only a separated shoulder in the incident and was back on flying duties soon after recovery. Patrick Question: Carrier landing with a problem photo is from an A-6 the ECMO's seat became diconnected and when the plane experienced negative G's slid up the ejection rail and broke the canopy. His Chute deployed and was caught in the tail, this saved him from being impailed on the jagged glass in front of him during the arrested landing Charles B. Question: RE: Your posting "Carrier Landing with a Problem" picutre. This occured to VA-95 an A-6E Intruder Squadron based on the USS Lincoln in 1991. This aircraft was flying a tanker verison of the Intruder and then experienced a problem with fuel transfer from one of thier drop tanks to the main tank in the middle of the fuselage. The manual says that this may occur due to a stuck valve and one way to fix it is to apply postive and negative pressure. So the pilot took the plane into a high angle climb and as the pilot threw the plane into a deep dive the B/N (the Guy hanging outside) the ejection seat that he was sitting in partially fired and partially extended up the rail that if flys out of. The resultant inspection upon landing found that a portion of the mechanism that actually starts the ejection squence when the pilot pulls the upper ejection handle. 
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