Landing Blind with a Crippled F-14 – Sierra Hotel Aeronautics
8 comments · Oct 05, 2018. Landing Blind with a Crippled F-14. During a mission in the Persian Gulf, a VF-142 F-14 Tomcat lost its radome due to the latching mechanism failure at over 450 kts, and an altitude of 27,000 feet. During in-flight separation, the radome slammed into the canopy, and shattered the forward glass of the canopy windscreen.