Original upload date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:24:07 GMT
A British pilot, Commander J D Russell, comes in to land on the HMS Victorious and tragically drowns after rolling off of the flight deck in this footage from 1958.
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Trapped Pilot Drowns in Sinking Cockpit (1958): The aircraft piloted by Commander J D Russell coming in to land on HMS Victorious in the Solent, Hampshire, it touches down, hooks onto the arrester wires and the plane then rolls along the deck. A rescue helicopter lowers a man down to try and help Commander Russell. But the waves lap over the cockpit and the aircraft sinks.
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