"José Herculano" wrote in
:

I put a strut thru the wing of an F-4S druing blue water ops on
Midway, at night. big CDTL, plus pitching deck altho I was 'slammed'
by the CO(Fox, have
ya seen my movie, Farrell).

Yautch. Was it the rainbow tailled CAG bird, modex 200? That got its
starboard wing almost ripped of?

Creative book keepin' made it a class C mishap and all it did was help
people
remember my name, not the mishap..that sometimes happens also.

Class C ? Then it *can't* be that one...

Are you sure it was at night? I have a copy of the PLAT video of that and
it sure looks like a day trap. I also have, somewhere in my crap, pix of
that thing sitting on El 3.

Yup, just looked at the video - definitely daytime, since I can see the
whitecaps past the deck edge. It's too poor a quality to get the date or
time from it, though.

Dave in San Diego
CV-41 '80-'83