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Black and white photograph of an A-4 Skyhawk about to crash into the flight deck barricade net
A-4 Skyhawk Barricade Crash
Black and white photograph of an A-4 Skyhawk about to crash into the flight deck barricade net
Black and white photograph of an A-4 Skyhawk about to crash into the flight deck barricade net

A-4 Skyhawk Barricade Crash

Object NamePhotograph
Historic Owner
Association
Date1967
PeriodVietnam War; Cold War
Mediumphotographic paper
ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts
Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum. Gift of James Boesch PH3 66-68. P2020.28.185
Object numberP2020.28.185
DescriptionPhotograph, Black and white; Official horizontal image of a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk from Anti-Submarine Fighter Squadron 3 (VSF-3) landing on USS Intrepid. The aircraft is about to hit the crash barricade. The barricade is a large net with vertical straps that is stretched across the landing area of the flight deck. Arresting cables are visible on the flight deck. Other aircraft are partially in view at left. The sea is calm and the sky is clear. There is a white border around the image.

This is one in a series of photographs of this crash landing.
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1944–1959
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Object number: OHP.196
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Marshall N. Morton
1966
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Marshall N. Morton
1966
Object number: P2021.40.65
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John Lawrence Donoghue
September 14, 2021
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Vernon E. Hazard
April 15, 1945
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Grumman C-1 Trader on the Flight Deck
Robert Wayne Osburn
1957–1961
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Digital color image of a Grumman F9F Cougar about to land on Intrepid's flight deck
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John Rivers
November 1956–November 1959
Object number: P2016.70.20
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Robert W. Rivers
1967
Object number: P2016.52.02
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