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From: gwh%sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Navy Accidents...
Summary: Forr real messes.
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Date: 2 Nov 89 04:20:45 GMT
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From: gwh%sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
	In the last few days the US Navy has had one of those 
statistical clumps of accidents that drive Admirals up the 
Bulkhead.

	Sunday: a Training plane crashes aboard USS Lexington,
killing five.

	Monday: A F-18 doing practice bombing accidentally
hits the CG Reeves with a Mk 82 500 lb bomb.  Bow damaged, 
five injuries.  [in indian ocean] Reports indicate that the 
bomb was fuzed for superquick (instantaneous) detonation, and
the damage would have been much worse had it penetrated
into the ship before detonating.

	Tuesday:  Two incidents:
	USS Eisenhower:  Three sailors and 38 air to air missiles 
($4.5 million) washed off a elevator while they were being raised 
onto deck.  Two sailors recovered from water within an hour, one 
still missing and presumed dead.
	USS Carl Vinson: Sailor falls overboard and is not recovered.
Cause unknown.

It's been a bad week.  

[mod.note:    The Eisenhower accident seems pretty odd...  that must have
been some wave !  Is it routine to operate the elevators in such weather ?
- Bill ]

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George William Herbert  UCB Naval Architecture Dpt. (my god, even on schedule!)
gwh@ocf.berkeley.edu [maniac@garnet.berkeley.edu, but i don't check mail often]
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