The fireball of a crippled plane into the aircraft carrier deck was used as a SB2C Helldiver crashing into the aircraft carrier. It's actual footage of a test flight of an F9F Panther crashing onto the USS Midway in 1951. The pilot survived.
The fireball of a crippled plane into the aircraft carrier deck was used as a F-14 Tomcat crashing into the aircraft carrier. It's actual footage of a test flight of an F9F Panther crashing onto the USS Midway in 1951. The pilot survived.