If the deck was wet, you’d get a nice, cool spritzing of JP-5 , oil , etc./ s
Another EA-6B incident. Where there were ladders and /or light lockers, a big heavy piece of channel iron was bolted to the scupper to allow a solid surface to make the transistion from the flight deck to the ladder/light locker. Someone had failed to bolt one of those down. EA-6B launched, the jet blast picked up this channel iron, aprox 3 feet long, and chucked it up and over # 4 JBD , it sailed clear over the LSO platform into the sea.
A bit of chatter over the radio about that, lol.
Wow! Can you imagine if that thing had hit someone...it would have killed them!
Talk about things flying free on the flight deck...I had to go up with one of my shipmates and see the Air Boss once. We were flying our planes on at the start of a cruise, they had all landed and tied down, and a Sea King set down near us, so we were being buffeted with rotor wash. This was my first Med deployment, so I was still a somewhat green plane captain...
I used my TL-29 to open an avionics door in the side of the plane, and when it popped open, several large paper manuals about six inches thick in binders that were leaning against the inside of the door flew out as the door opened, landed at my feet, broke open, and filled the turbulent air with reams of paper it was like a snowstorm with 8.5 x 11 snowflakes!
They were being blown everywhere by the rotor wash! I stood there dumbly, not really knowing what to do, but I recalled hearing something loud and angry coming over the 1MC even though what was being said completely didn’t register.
A Chief Yellowshirt came over and yelled in my ear “THE AIR BOSS WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!”
LOL, me and the other guy marched up there and he was pissed. He didn’t attack us, but said loudly “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?”
I explained that someone had lodged the binders in there where I hadn’t expected any binders to be, and they just plopped out unexpectedly. I didn’t hear about it after the fact, so I guess it was one of those “The less said about it the better” things...nobody ever asked why someone put those binders in there, maybe that was normal when flying on board when starting a deployment.