[Hemingway's Ghost]

I'm happy to report that the pilot (retired USN CDR, F/A-18 driver, a metric ton of combat missions under his belt) is doing as well as he possibly could be doing after such an immensely harrowing ejection. He is truly a phenomenal pilot, and things could've been much, much worse.

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.

[az_gila]

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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.
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It sounds like the parasail folks were witnesses rather than rescuers.

"...Jamey Regelbrugge was captaining a boat for Hawaiian Parasail south of Oahu when he saw the jet fly over the parachute he was pulling behind his boat. He saw the pilot eject and the plane crash into the water. Almost in an instant, the Coast Guard came and pulled the pilot out of the water..."

Well done to the USCG who happened to be ‘Johnny on the Spot”