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Horrifying moment Brit fighter jet plunges into sea as pilot ejects at last minute
Royal Navy, with a leaked video showing the moment it failed to take off.In the clip, a smartphone recording of CCTV onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth, the jet appears to be moving far too slowly as it inches towards the edge of the runway.The plane rolls over the edge and plunges down into the Mediterranean Sea and out of sight.Fortunately, the pilot managed to eject and return to the aircraft carrier with minor injuries from the incident on November 17.It's believed the botched takeoff is due to a red plastic rain cover being left on the plane in error and sucked into the engine, The Sun reports.There are concerns the plane, now a mile beneath the sea, may have struck the aircraft carrier on the way down.Commander Tom Sharpe, a former Royal