[flicker]

Watched JAG this week and the story line wandered around a female Navy pilot who had lost and engine. She was able to hold the fighter upright long enough for her backseater to eject. Once he was safely out, the plane inverted and she went in with it, losing her life.

The only lost Navy female pilot I remember, was 3-4 years ago. The investigation showed that she had been pushed well beyond her capacity, just to keep a "trophy female" in a pilot's seat. As the evidence started to develop, the whole issue dissapeared.

Has there been any other Navy Female Pilots lost at sea or what's going on here.

Anybody remember the earlier accident??

[bkwells]

Yeah, I remember it... was front page stuff for a while, until the investigation determined that it was pilot error. The feminazi's didn't want to hear about it.

[dvwjr]

Watched JAG this week and the story line wandered around a female Navy pilot who had lost and engine. She was able to hold the fighter upright long enough for her backseater to eject. Once he was safely out, the plane inverted and she went in with it, losing her life. .
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Anybody remember the earlier accident??

I think both the episode of "JAG" was loosely based on the actual event which concerned an F14-A piloted by Lt. Kara Hultgreen on October 24, 1994 during carrier qualification operation onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) off the coast of San Diego, California.

Listed below are three links about the accident, report, cover-up, and women-in-combat in general:
Mishap Investigation Report on line# 465
The "McNamara-ization" of the U.S. Navy
Women-in-Combat after the Terrorist Attack on America

Bottom line: Average pilot who was good in the A-6, overloaded in F-14A. Pilot error conclusion from MIR:

"MP lost situational awareness, failed to scan AOA, allowed pitch attitude to slowly increase and exceeded maximum controllable AOA of 20 units. At approximately flight deck level, MA stalled, departed controlled flight, and rolled rapidly left."

[RightWingConspirator]

The female pilot had been the poster-child for the feminazis thanks to Hitlary Klintoon, and the Navy had been told that she would succeed. Her instructor pilot(s) had found that she just didn't have the aptitude for flying and had given her ratings that would have eliminated her from flight school. Higher authorities (read the Klintoons and their boot-lickers) had the ratings changed and ensured that she graduated from flight school. Unfortunately the fact that she had wings on her chest didn't improve her marginal flying skills (which would have washed a male pilot trainee out of training) and she crashed while trying to land on a carrier.