Are they implying that the plane hit the water ?? How could he recover from that ?
What is the human error if he caught the wire ?

We non- pilots want to know .

They didn't hit water but damn close - too close.

I believe the human error was setting up the arresting engine to the proper weight.

OK God.....I've got it....

nice save...... navy pilots are among the best in the world.......

That's what I tought !
Injured sailors ? I'll bet they were hit by the snapped cable which is a very dangerous situation !

ONLY an E-2 with that kind of wing and props could have pulled that off. Amazing.

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Originally posted by jorge:
ONLY an E-2 with that kind of wing and props could have pulled that off. Amazing.

Cept maybe a twin Otter.

When I was in the navy I was trained in the a carried launched anti sub air craft S2E, twin engine . Before I ever had the chance to get on a carrier I was transferred to a land based squadron using P2V, a bummer since flight time went from 6 to 20 hours
If my memory serves me once the arresting cable is hooked the engines are raced in the event something goes wrong so they have sufficient power for a recovery as what happened in the above video where the arresting cable broke. A recip has a better chance of recovery from a situation like this but I have seen several videos where jet fighters recovered from this situation several showed their landing gear was slicing the water...talk about a pucker factor