Missed !!!

A spectacular though tragic photographic account of a Sea Vixen missing the arrester wire and hitting the ocean...

NB. Image shows a Scimitar of 800B flight for effect
and not the Vixen accounted for below..

Not low enough....and misses the wire

Pilot loses control...so with Observer ejects

Closer view showing parachutes opening..

Violent splash as Vixen hits the water..

SAR Wessex to the rescue

Casualties brought aboard the 'Eagle'

..and rushed to sick bay.

_{Goto H.M.S. Eagle}

_{or you could Goto FRONT...}