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We lost one COD with all hands during my tour. There had been a shipboard fire, which destroyed one of the ship's electric generators. They loaded it onto a COD to send it to the Subic Bay Navy base (Philippines) for repair. It wasn't secured properly, and shifted when the cat launched. The plane went tail first into the water as soon as it left the cat, and the ship, doing at least 30 knots, ran over it. The whole fleet of COD's was grounded for a while after that, and they had to use aging piston powered C1's for cargo delivery for a while.
