Sounds more like a display than an exercise....
—...after crashing his plane—
Prayers for the pilot. Too bad about the plane...it was a nice one.
ATAC does this all the time...it's their business. Thank God almighty he was in home waters, not out over the South Pacific somewhere.
Not enough praise can be heaped on the Hawaiian Parasail personnel who arrived on scene first and helped him untangle, and the USCG for bringing him in.
Here's a good video package of the story:
Pilot rescued after small military training plane crashes off Oahu.