CABLE SNAP - EJECT !!! Yikes ! Luckiest person ever ! September 11, 2003. 100 miles off the coast of Virginia. An F/A-18 attempting to land on USS George Washington aircraft carrier, on touchdown one of the four arresting wires that crosses the flight deck snapped, sending the $60 million jet into the sea, and a two inch thick steel cable sizzling through the crowded flight deck. 8 sailors suffered injury, 5 seriously injured were airlifted by helicopter to a nearby hospital. The threat of cable