[MilCom] Acft 703 has lost his right canopy; now on IFE divert to Jax

[AllanStern at aol.com]

It is 8:13pm EST (0113z).
   Acft 703 among the group from the carrier has just announced  he has an 
IFE and must divert to Jacksonville immediately. His emergency is  "right canopy 
has departed from the aircraft."  He informed Sealord on  267.5 and is now up 
on 284.5.  
   I heard him inform another aircraft about the incident as soon  as it 
happened, and the pilot was quite calm about it. . .not totally calm, but  
considering the emergency he took it pretty good and descended to 10,000  feet.  I 
guess when you land an F/A-18 in the middle of the night on a  moving ship that 
is tossing and turning in a wild ocean, losing  a canopy is just another event 
in your day. 
 
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