Knew this was out there, but ran across it again today: probably the ultimate in Luckiest Unlucky Man on the Flight Deck, a catapult tech that was "eaten" by an A-6 ...and lived to tell about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxl9pfj2mU

No sea story in my inventory could ever top this one.

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