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November 1952. Captain James Holloway's F-86 Sabre takes cannon fire from a MiG-15. Engine dying. Fifty miles deep in North Korean territory.
He reaches for the ejection handle. Standard procedure when your aircraft is critically damaged over enemy lines.
The ejection seat is jammed. He's trapped.
Now Holloway faces an impossible choice: try to land in North Korea and become a POW, or attempt something the manual says will kill him—ditch a jet fighter in the Yellow Sea.
For 45 minutes, Holloway nurses a crippled, burning aircraft toward the coast. Dead engine. Failed hydraulics. Smoke filling the cockpit. Controls that barely respond.
His wingman stays with him the whole way, watching what he'll later call "the most beautiful piece of flying I'd ever seen."
When Holloway hits the water at 200 mph, the aircraft breaks apart. He's underwater, upside down, trapped in a sinking fighter jet with 30 seconds to get out.
What happens next rewrites Air Force survival procedures. Because Holloway becomes the only pilot on record to successfully ditch an F-86 and survive.
This is the story of 45 minutes that shouldn't have been survivable. The ditching the manual said was impossible. And how one pilot's refusal to quit changed how fighter pilots think about survival forever.
🎖️ Based on Air Force records, DFC citation, and pilot testimonies
📚 SOURCES:

Distinguished Flying Cross citation, Captain James Holloway (1953)
Air Force ditching procedures manual revisions (1985)
Naval Forces Far East rescue records
Squadron mate interviews and after-action reports

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