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'Like a car crash': Navy fighter pilot describes brain injury phenomenon now at center of congressional probe
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The House Oversight Committee is demanding the Navy reveal more information about a secret effort to learn more about a brain injury phenomenon among its most elite fighter pilots.
"Landing aboard an aircraft carrier, it's literally a car crash. It's the equivalent force of sitting in your driveway, in your car, and having a crane take you up to the second story and dropping you," said Matthew ‘Whiz’ Buckley, a TOPGUN graduate and F/A-18 fighter pilot, who told Fox News Digital in an interview he suffers from the brain injuries scrutinized by the project.
"The catapult shot, you go from zero to about 150, 200 miles an hour in a second to a second and a half. So your brain's kind of being jarred, you know, back and forward."
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