Found an abandoned F14 fighter jet while I was mapping the sea floor with an Edgetech Side Scan Sonar, off the coast of Norfolk, VA. (O.C.)

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Ret-r0 on February 4th, 2021 at 02:11 UTC »

If I remember correctly, the term is Jettison. When a fighter jet catches fire or something else on the flight deck of a carrier catches fire, they push it overboard.

I may be wrong with my terminology, but I’m pretty sure that’s the right term. So it’s kinda cool to think about what happened that made the navy push a very expensive piece of equipment overboard.

P.s. the navy throws a shit ton of stuff overboard in international waters. Check about 30-50 miles off the coast of Norfolk, Florida, and San Diego.

brainey77 on February 4th, 2021 at 02:15 UTC »

Congratulations on posting on IAF and actually being IAF.

Project_Wild on February 4th, 2021 at 02:29 UTC »

How on earth can you tell that’s a F14?! That’s why they pay you the big bucks