Corsair carrier torque roll crash

[VMTB143]

View: https://youtu.be/oELswcifnGA?feature=shared

 

[Airframes]

Holy sh*(t !!

 

[Sabrejet]

12th May 1945; 2Lt Edward C Groves.

 

[mjfur]

It looks like he kept the stick full aft the entire time.

 

[AMCKen]

Stall - spin rather than torque roll?

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Good lord.

 

[cammerjeff]

To my eyes It also looks like he stalled it by pulling the nose up to soon. Or improperly trimmed, or a mechanical failure of something in the elevator system. It looks like the elevators are nose up the entire time. I wish my father was still around I would have asked his opinion. But he never flew off anything smaller than an Essex class carrier, other than training, and did not fly fighters. ( he also briefly flew off the USS Enterprise CV-6 so slightly smaller but not much.)