[simpits-tech] NEWS: Two CVW-17 Aircraft Damaged in JFK Collision

[Justin Messenger]

Subject: Fw: NEWS: Two CVW-17 Aircraft Damaged in JFK Collision 
Incident (22nd July)

Navy says Kennedy jets were damaged in mishap

The Navy has acknowledged that two jets were damaged during an incident
last month when the carrier John F. Kennedy collided with a fishing 
dhow
in the Persian Gulf. Navy officials said that the Mayport, Fla.-based
carrier made a hard left turn trying to avoid the dhow, causing one
plane that had just landed to slide into another that was parked.

An investigation continues into the collision, which resulted in the
sinking of the dhow. No survivors or remains from the small boat were
recovered. No one in the aircraft, or aboard the Kennedy, was hurt.

The accident occurred at 10:30 p.m. July 22 while the Kennedy was
recovering aircraft from an earlier launch, officials have confirmed.

Operating in international waters at night, the Kennedy detected the
dhow before it was struck but was in the midst of an F-14 Tomcat 
landing
and maintained its course and speed until the plane landed.

Only then did the ship alter course, causing the carrier to pitch,
sending the skidding F-14 into the side of a parked F/A-18 Hornet,
according to a statement released Monday by the 5th Fleet in Bahrain.

The investigation is being led by Rear Adm. Evan M. Chanik.

Source: The Virginian-Pilot (17th August, 2004)

More about the incident with the dhow on 22nd July here:
http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=14451





		
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