Awesome aborted landing on a Russian carrier

I thought about putting this in the Military forum, but then I thought it wasn't anything really except a really cool capture of a aborted landing on a Russian carrier, so, Im just going to put it here for you folks to see.

I wonder what kind of g- force this pilot must have felt pulling out of this one! One heck of a pilot though to pull this one off....

sooo close to hitting the deck, can't have been more than a foot from it!!

Do you think he was testing the aircraft or did he just come in too fast?

hahaha nice its like time to land and radio tower calls in "hey did you get the milk?" "ohhh crap, forgot the milk!" pull up!!

Looks like a training exercise. Pretty sure pilots are taught to abort landings on carriers. Could be wrong so don't quote me as fact

I'm no naval aviator, but that sure doesn't seem like the right way to abort a landing to me.
First, the tail-hook should have bee retracted so it could not catch anything (that was almost the cause of the disaster).
Second, the plane should have been kept much more level so it would have more airlift to get back into the air. It was only the immense power of the TWO engines that saved a sure crash. And an ejection seat would have been worthless at that attitude/altitude.

reply to post by Tayesin


Geez, some training excercise.

Okay, what I need you to do know in order to pass the Aircraft Carrier Pilot exam is to attempt landing only to be advised just prior to landing, that we have your entire family at gunpoint and if you sucessfully land, well sorry thay all get it.

How far off the landing deck? Hats off to this pilot.

You know when I lived in Florida, I used to sit at the end of the Fort Lauderdale runway all the time.I remember one day one of Canada's Airbus was coming in for a landing. Now from where I sat, there was a 15 foot (?)fence around the perimeter or the airport. This planes wheels were all ready down below my line of vision of the fence when it aborted. I think someone hadn't cleared the run way yet. That was a lot of plane to watch scream its engines to climb. I could just imagine how many free drinks they had to give out after that!

It was very impressive to see though and I will never forget it. This though, on a moving carrier at sea, tops the airbus all to .... . Im still curious about the g force though. Anyone have any clue what it may have been?

reply to post by fah0436


The aircraft in this footage is a Sukhoi SU-37, one of the most advanced and highly manouverable aircraft in the world today.. this aborted landing is nothing compared to footage of what this amazing aircraft can do.

Don't know how to embed video so here is a link... Sukhoi Su-37 at Air Show

That didn't look intentional to me. Guess now we all know why the Russians don't have many aircraft carriers

Bet somebody had to clean his flightsuit!

reply to post by Tayesin


Here I embedded it for you... that is pretty sweet!

Thank you Onehuman.. much appreciated

What a pilot can't do with these Su-37's isn't worth talking about.