Whoops – Deck handling issues!

Yes, it appears that the aircraft had landed off to one side, then the deck handling crew had tried to use the RAST gear to pull the aircraft into line with the hangar doors before towing it inside with the RAST shuttle.

Unfortunately the starboard wheel was caught on the RAST shuttle and the attempt to pull it meant that the wheel became the pivot point for the aircraft to topple.

It appears to be a USN Sea Hawk, you can see the forward, nose mounted FLIR, which is common to the USN’s Sea Hawks.

I bet after this choice piece of stupidity the deck crew were contestants in that new Olympic sport, synchronised butt kicking.

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Actually, remember reading about this somewhere and if you look closely between the rotor blades on the left you can see the wire that pulls the helo on its side. Nothing to do with weather but utterly incompetent handling of aircraft.