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A Navy surveillance plane overshoots the runway, ends up in the water

by thebesig••49

A Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft intended to land on a runway onboard a Marine Corps base in Hawaii. The pilot miscalculated, missed the runway, and ended up in Kaneohe Bay. None of the individuals onboard had been immediately injured, and all are accounted for.

From USNI News:

The P-8A reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft was on approach to land on the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay on the island of Oahu.

“The aircraft was landing and overshot” the runway, said 1st Lt. Hailey Harms, a Marine Corps Base Hawaii spokesperson, told USNI News.

The aircraft, assigned to the Whidbey Island, Wash.-based “Skinny Dragons” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 4? landed at 1:59 p.m. local Hawaii time and ended up in shallow water just off the coast. The air station’s main runway runs in a northeast-to-southwest direction.

“At approximately 2 p.m. local (Hawaii), a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon overshot the runway on landing at Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, and ended up in nearby water,” reads a statement from U.S. 3rd Fleet.
“All personnel safely evacuated the aircraft. The crew, assigned to Whidbey Island, Wash.-based squadron VP-4 ‘Skinny Dragons,” were on a detachment in support of maritime homeland defense.”
Nine people were aboard the aircraft at the time but no immediate injuries were reported.

“They are still being medically assessed,” Harms said.

USNI News has additional information here.

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49 thoughts on “A Navy surveillance plane overshoots the runway, ends up in the water”

  4. Saw this this morning: (11) Diversity & Inclusion Crew On NAVY Plane Crash Into the Ocean – YouTube

    DEI for the win, am I right? If the Navy weren’t so proud of their diverse flight crews and instead just ensured the best-qualified operated aircraft, regardless of sex or race, would this have happened? Had it happened anyway, would it have become another tool in the belt of the anti-Woke/DEI crowd?

    Instead, we get to gloat over what appears to be another failure in diversity hiring.

    2. AWW GEE WHIZ, another piece of proof that diversity hiring quotas turn things to shit? Maybe next they’ll blame Donald Trump for it?

    3. It wouldn’t have. That K Bay runway is plenty long to land on if you do it remotely correctly.

  6. Does “medically assessed” mean removing seats from the crews asses and the pilots head from his/her ass?

    But hey, they swam or waded to shore, so it was a good landing.

    An idea for a squadron patch… a skinny dragon with a life vest and duck feet.

  8. Another meaning for “missed approached” and the wrong procedure. Someone is about to have a change in their career path.

  9. Wasn’t there, not going to speculate. It is essentially a 737 so landing the thing is no mystery; other factors obviously are at play. That being said…

  10. Need to make the pilot personally pay for the maintenance, overhaul, and repair of the plane. A lot of those parts don’t like water.

      2. OK, I laffed way yonder too hard over that, ‘beans. Maybe they had already reached their quota of hit whales? It was a whale of an error in judgement in the landing. Not a pilot and have never played one on TeeVee or in the movies, but from what I’ve learned watching Naval Aviation Documentaries, I think you’re supposed to have as many successful landings as you have take-offs. I guess any landing that you walk, or in this case, swim away from is a good landing.

        Maybe they weren’t really flying into a danger zone, but the pilot and/or navigator have done a whale of a job in putting their flying career on ice, man.

        2. Perhaps the Navy should reassign the crew to fly a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong! And, as you can see, the aircraft shown in the pic has its engines mounted correctly. 🤣

          VLLC!

            1. It’s one of my favorites and is one of the many things I am thankful for this Thanksgiving!🤣

    2. When I was in, we were always told not to tear up/break/wreck anything we couldn’t eat or take home.

  15. Well, when you hire for diversity, I suppose you have to expect diverse results when doing what should be a routine landing.

    Honestly, does anyone else see the image of putting someone unqualified in a position on the basis of some ‘diversity criterion’ as giving fuel to those who’d claim that those in that criterion are incapable of meeting the standards of another group or groups?

  16. Is this one of those amphibious aircraft that All Points Logistics are building for the DoD?

  17. THAT IS NOT going to look good on that Pilot’s resume’! Well, maybe he thought his Aircraft was thirsty and needed hydration?

      2. That’s a good landing. A great landing is where one can actually fly that airplane again tomorrow.

        This one, not so great.

          2. Not if she had the gear down and locked, which she almost certainly would have at that altitude (or lack thereof).

            Gotta be more to the story that will eventually be discovered. No approach radar? No VASI lights, no marker beacons?

            No one killed, no reported injuries. It’s a salvage job now.

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