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Article: Navy to continue efforts to retrieve crashed F-14 that killed female pilot. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- December 13, 1994
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WASHINGTON _ It was literally at their fingertips _ a dripping, 30-ton behemoth of an airplane that had taken hours to haul from the bottom of the Pacific at the end of a shredding Kevlar cable.
Five weeks had passed since their robot submarine had found the crashed F-14 that killed the female pilot. Five weeks of finicky weather and bad luck: Part of a wing had broken off when they had tried this before.
But at around noon on Saturday, 40 miles off the coast of southern California, Lt. Kara S. Hultgreen's battered fighter, potentially laden with clues to her death, was within reach of a crack Navy salvage team.
When the cable snapped.
And once again the big ...