The day the RAN lost a Scooter of the carrier

[Liberator]

Here is a rare film showing a Royal Australian Navy A-4G Skyhawk snagging the wire aboard HMAS Melbourne our once proud aircraft carrier in the old days......but it fails and the aircraft slows and then goes off the deck. The pilot believed to have been an US exchange pilot bails out and uses his ejector seat at last second as the aircraft sinks off the flight deck edge - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQRxJJDb ... detailpage and a more dramatic view from here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5oZ6RVISg