Jet aircraft goes into sea from aircraft carrier

Saved from Death - In seven minutes. Jet aircraft goes into sea - from aircraft carrier. In a drama which lasted for exactly seven minutes - pilot Commander J.E. Davis of the US Navy was saved from death in an accident aboard the United States aircraft carrier off Scotland. Commander Davis was taking off by catapult in a Navy F8u-1 Crusader jet fighter when the machine veered to the right as a result of an apparent failure in the linkage between the plane and the catapult which had already shot to the end of its run. The machine was almost righted when the right rear wheel skidded off the deck into the gun tub below. The photos were taken by Airman JA Warren of Florida with a Fairchild K-20 aerial twenty camera in approx 20 seconds. The aircraft floated alongside the aircraft carrier - and Davis did not clear the plane until after it had submerged. He was rescued and treated in the sick bay - his only injury beings a one inch cut to his left elbow. He was recovered from the water by helicopter approximately seven minutes after the launch started - and was in the sick bay three minutes later. Photo shows View of the aircraft poised for its tail-first dive into the sea. Note that the pilot had not even opened his canopy when the picture was taken

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