P-8A Poseidon in the drink...

[yellowjack]

US Navy confuses aeroplanes and ships. Lands a P-8A Poseidon in the sea.

Really surprised there hasn't been a thread running on this one. US Navy P-8A overshoots runway on landing at USMC airbase on Oahu, Hawaii. All crew safe, aircraft (mostly) intact. After "throwing a boom around it" and worrying about the impact on local wildlife, US military assets have now recovered the aircraft back onto the airbase. Apparently they're hopeful that it can be repaired and returned to service too...

https://news.usni.org/2023/11/20/navy-p-8a-poseido...

https://news.usni.org/2023/12/04/navy-marine-team-...



ETA: Sorry. Found another thread, with a misleading title.

Edited by yellowjack on Wednesday 6th December 01:13

[normalbloke]

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[yellowjack]

normalbloke said:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Yup. Found that and posted my edit just about the same time you posted. Didn't realise it was a thread about this subject at first, and skimmed over it due to the rather misleading title.

[Eric Mc]

Same here. People should try and be a bit more informative with their thread titles.

It was up a few days before I copped on to the fact that it was about this particular incident.

Can they fix the P-8?

[MarkwG]

Eric Mc said:

Same here. People should try and be a bit more informative with their thread titles.

It was up a few days before I copped on to the fact that it was about this particular incident.

Can they fix the P-8?

I believe that's the intention: it sustained very little damage in the over run apparently, the issue is how far the salt water has got into the systems, the airframe seems to be mostly OK. If it was my call, I'd use it as an engineering training exercise to see what can be done.

[bobthemonkey]

Normally salt water immersion would be a near instant scrapping, especially for an aircraft still in production.

They may attempt the repair more as a 'first in class' exercise to see what's possible.

[GliderRider]

As the P-8 is designed to fill a similar role to the Nimrod which includes substantial time at low level over the sea, it may have additional anti-corrosion treatment beyond that of a normal 737. Even so, I expect the airframe will be subject to regular additional non-destructive testing thoroughout the remainder of its life.
How much of the avionics can be reused is anybody's guess, and that is where the real value is on a P-8.

Nimrods received a regular wash from a dedicated high pressure bed at RAF Kinloss. Even so, when the airframes were stripped for rebuilding as MRA.4s, there were instances of corroded lower rear fuselage panels being removed with a push from a fitter's boot.