I was a yellow shirt (Aircraft Director) on the USS Coral Sea CVA-43. I was spotting an F-4 on the number one catapult. Had her up at after burner and ready to launch,..then all of a sudden that F-4 started to shudder and the engines made a wierd screaming sound. It had sucked up some bolts out of the catapult track that had been worked on the night before and fodded out both engines. I stood up and signaled the shooter to abort the launch. He was within a second or two of launching that F-4 into the "drink". Had he launched,..I would have been cut in half and both pilots probably would not have made it. The Old Coral Sea is razor blades now,..de-commissoned in 1991.
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