{"id":658004,"date":"2026-05-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=658004"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:58:40","slug":"blown-overboard-the-tomcat-pushed-off-a-carrier-by-jet-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/blown-overboard-the-tomcat-pushed-off-a-carrier-by-jet-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Blown Overboard: The Tomcat Pushed Off a Carrier by Jet Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\nOn April 18, 1995, a Grumman F-14 Tomcat from VF-21 Freelancers was blown off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62). Not by enemy fire. Not by a wave. By the raw, uncontained power of another Tomcat&#8217;s afterburners.\n\nAs a jet on Catapult 4 spooled up for launch, its exhaust blast overwhelmed the deck&#8217;s jet blast deflector and struck the parked F-14 with enough force to push the 33-tonne fighter across the deck and over the side into the Pacific Ocean.\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:24px 0 28px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> April 18, 1995<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Ship:<\/strong> USS Independence (CV-62)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Aircraft lost:<\/strong> F-14A Tomcat, VF-21 Freelancers<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Cause:<\/strong> Jet blast from another Tomcat on Catapult 4<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Injuries:<\/strong> Crew were not aboard the affected aircraft<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Physics of Jet Blast<\/h2>\n\nAn F-14 Tomcat&#8217;s twin Pratt &#038; Whitney TF30 turbofans produced approximately 41,000 pounds of thrust in full afterburner. That exhaust stream exits the engines at temperatures exceeding 600 degrees Celsius and velocities approaching 500 kilometres per hour. At close range, it can flip vehicles, ignite fuel spills, and push aircraft weighing tens of thousands of kilograms.\n\nAircraft carriers manage this lethal exhaust with Jet Blast Deflectors (JBDs) \u2014 massive steel panels that rise from the deck behind a launching aircraft, directing the exhaust upward and away from parked aircraft and deck crew. But the JBD system has limits. If an aircraft is parked too close, or at the wrong angle, or if the deflector does not fully contain the blast pattern, the results can be catastrophic.\n\nOn that April day aboard the Independence, the geometry was wrong. The Tomcat waiting on Catapult 4 unleashed its full afterburner power, and the blast found its way around or over the deflector to the parked F-14 nearby. The force was irresistible.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Over the Side<\/h2>\n\nThe parked Tomcat \u2014 wings folded, no crew aboard \u2014 began to slide across the non-skid deck coating. Deck crew scrambled for safety as the multi-million-dollar fighter scraped across the steel surface, gathering speed, and tumbled over the edge into the ocean. It sank within minutes.\n\nFortunately, no one was killed or seriously injured. Had deck crew been working around the aircraft, or had the crew been strapped in for their own launch, the incident could have been far worse. The speed at which events unfolded \u2014 seconds from the first movement to the aircraft going overboard \u2014 left virtually no time for intervention.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Life on the Flight Deck<\/h2>\n\nThe flight deck of an aircraft carrier is routinely described as the most dangerous workplace in the world, and incidents like this are why. In an area roughly the size of three football fields, dozens of aircraft are simultaneously taxiing, launching, recovering, refuelling, and arming \u2014 all while jet engines produce exhaust hot enough to melt aluminium and propeller wash strong enough to throw a person overboard.\n\nEvery person on the flight deck wears colour-coded jerseys that identify their role, and every movement is choreographed with hand signals and rigid procedures. But the margins are razor-thin. When something goes wrong \u2014 a broken tie-down chain, a misaligned JBD, a momentary lapse in communication \u2014 the consequences are measured in millions of dollars, or in lives.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C02TVI_TH6Q\" title=\"F-14 Explodes During Supersonic Flyby\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C02TVI_TH6Q?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>F-14 Tomcat flight deck incident<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Sources: Aviation Diary HD (Instagram), U.S. Navy, Naval Aviation Safety Center<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 18, 1995, a Grumman F-14 Tomcat from VF-21 Freelancers was blown off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62). 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