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U.S. carrier collides with boat

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FlyingDoc

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy has collided with an unidentified dhow while on patrol in the Arabian Gulf, the U.S. Navy said.

No survivors from the dhow, a small traditional vessel, were found after Thursday night's incident. All of the Kennedy's crew and aircraft were accounted for.

The U.S. Navy was conducting an investigation into the incident.

The dhow sank immediately on collision. Alhough the Kennedy and a British warship, HMS Somerset, launched a search-and-rescue mission, no survivors were found.

It was unclear how many crew were on board the dhow, but the small vessels, used mainly for transport and fishing, usually carry up to 15 people.

"There is every reason to believe the collision was an accident, but there are force protection implications because warships make every effort to stay away from unknown small boats which could pose a terrorist threat," a Navy spokesman said.

Concern about small boats near warships has grown since October 2000, when suicide attackers detonated explosives on a small boat they brought alongside the USS Cole destroyer as it refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed in the attack.
 

Steve Wilkins

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Those dhow's are very hard to see on radar, and even more difficult to pick up with the naken eye with a lot of blue water as the background.
 

HooverPilot

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I'm aboard the JFK and flexed from SSC to SAR for this last night. The ship tried like heck to avoid the dhow, but carriers don't quite turn on a dime. For those who haven't been here before, or are trying to forget, the gulf is very, very hazy and seems to be about the darkest place on earth.
 

Steve Wilkins

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There were times when I was standing watch in CDC that I thought those things were actually trying to cause a collision. Not in the sense that they were trying to cause us harm from a terrorism point of view. But that they wanted us to be the bad guys that hurt poor innocent civilians who were just trying to make a living.
 
You'd think the dhows would try to avoid the carrier for the same reason that you don't step in front of a semi truck. I mean, it's not like the carrier just snuck up on the bastard.
 

johnmyson

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My local news just said that some aircraft were damaged as the JFK maneuvered to try and avoid the collision. Can carriers change directions fast enough to cause aircraft to shift around?
 

TANGO 1

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HooverPilot said:
Yes carriers can turn fast enough to damage aircraft. The deck has a very small list restriction when aircraft are moving around. However a carrier can list quite a bit when they put a hard turn on. Not gonna comment on any alleged a/c damage. The navy press releases can discuss something like that, not me.

Honsetly i will not say i have heard this before, but i know we normally tie-down the jets at about 12 different point, which makes them secured, unless maybe those under in the hangar below deck. I am not saying saying it is not possible, but i have not heard of that. Well there is always a first time. (well in my case)
 

Fly Navy

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Steve Wilkins said:
There were times when I was standing watch in CDC that I thought those things were actually trying to cause a collision. Not in the sense that they were trying to cause us harm from a terrorism point of view. But that they wanted us to be the bad guys that hurt poor innocent civilians who were just trying to make a living.

Actually, that's quite possible. Or they could be fvcking morons. Or both.
 

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Patmack18 said:
Once again.. Tango has to open his mouth, and contradict something that came from SOMEONE THAT WAS THERE! TANGO SHUT UP ALREADY!!!

How have i contradicted anything?

I never said it wasn't possible. But if you will only mind you business and leave TANGO alone, that might just save your from so much time and energy.
 

Steve Wilkins

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I can see this is going to go south from here, so I'm lockin it.
 
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