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A US Navy pilot narrowly avoided crashing into the sea by as little as 16 feet after a 'catastrophic' failure aboard his aircraft carrier
Documents obtained by Business Insider show how the F/A-18 pilot prevented his fighter jet from crashing into the Indian ...
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A US Navy pilot narrowly avoided crashing into the sea by as little as 16 feet after a 'catastrophic' failure aboard his aircraft carrier
A fighter jet normally clears the deck at around 150 knots. The pilot's Super Hornet dropped off the end, hitting a maximum sink rate of 738 feet per minute even while the afterburners were engaged.