she didn't crash into the carrier. she stalled one of the engines on approach and flipped the f-14 over before ejecting straight down into the water. probably hit the surface at 150+ mph and broke her neck instantly. the rio lived because she ejected a half second sooner and went sideways. after she died her flight school records were leaked. if she were a man she would have been flunked out of the program several times because she just wasn't that good. she was horsed through the training anyways because the concept of dei is older than you think. she went from "fake it til you make it" to dead in few months. the official investigation went out of it's way to blame anything and everything other than hultgren. they even fished to wrecked plane out of ocean from thousands of feet down hoping to find a mechanical fault but it only proved that she stalled the engine by under powering on approach. that wiki page is weapons grade copium about the crash.
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