He's wrong because that is an area that the USN actively did carrier training in from 1945 to today, and lots of planes ended up in the ocean after missing a la

He's wrong because that is an area that the USN actively did carrier training in from 1945 to today, and lots of planes ended up in the ocean after missing a landing, a take-off failure, or just because the pilot had to bail for whatever reason. Heck, during the evacuation of Hanoi they were pushing perfectly good jets into the ocean just to clear enough room for helicopters and the odd cessna, but that would have been further west. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-south-vietnamese-o-1-bird-dog-landed-aboard-uss-midway/ https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-south-vietnamese...