F-14 Tomcat ejection from USS Constellation, Dec 19, 1981

An F-14 Tomcat fighter from US Navy Fighter Squadron 24 (VF-24) returns to the carrier USS Constellation after a routine training flight in the Indian Ocean, December 19, 1981. To land, aircraft use their tailhook to catch one of four arresting cables stretched across the carrier flight deck. On this day, one of the cables was not set correctly, and that’s the one that was hooked. Unfortunately the camera is blinded by the sun’s glare, and you can’t see the F-14 crew rocket from their fighter on their eject