VIDEO: What Makes You Change Your Undies

Navy investigators blamed human error and an improperly programmed valve for a March incident in which eight sailors were injured when a cable used to catch a landing E-2C Hawkeye snapped on the flight deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Video shows a harrowing few moments in which the aircraft disappears off the flight deck and reappears several seconds later. Full report.

Below is a KPBS program on the challenges of carrier flight.