At the urging of Yelland's XO, Dan Thurmond, the captain orders the F14 pilots to make a supersonic run over the Zeros in an attempt to frighten them off. The F14 pilots witness the attack but are given sharp orders not to engage the Zeros. The pilots also strafe the survivors in the water, killing the crew member. Chapman, Scott and the yacht's other crewman all abandon ship, which explodes when the Zeros make another pass and again open fire. The Zeros suddenly execute sharp turns and open fire on the boat. A few minutes later, the Zeros fly over Chapman's boat. The F14s then receive word of another pair of radar contacts and when they're spotted, one pilot excitedly reports that the two contacts are World War II era Japanese "Zero" planes. They spot the two F14s as they pass over the boat, unable to comprehend the speed of the jets. The nearby boat is a yacht, the personal boat of a popular United States Senator, Samuel Chapman and his personal assistant, Laurel Scott, whom are enjoying a day in the sun. Yelland has two F14s launched to investigate. The ship's radar operator reports the presence of a small boat several hundred miles from the Nimitz. A photo reconnaissance aircraft is sent up to take photos of Pearl Harbor, and when it returns the photos prompt Yelland to bring up the ship's Wing Commander, Richard Owens, who is also a World War II history expert he compares the shots to several from a book he has and he determines that they are nearly identical and that fleet in Pearl at the present moment was sunk by the Japanese Imperial Air Force nearly 40 years before. The radio operator of the boat receives strange broadcasts from Hawaii they sound like classic radio from the pre-World War II era, leaving everyone puzzled. Yelland orders reports from all stations and the ship appears to be in perfect order. The Nimitz emerges from the storm unharmed and is able to land the stray Corsair that went through as well. Yelland orders alert just before the storm overtakes them and swallows them. When Yelland orders the ship's course to be changed, the storm follows - just as a Corsair reports it cannot land on the ship due to damage to the plane's tail hook. One of the ship's sonar crew notices a large and unusual storm approaching the Nimitz. Also on the carrier is Warren Lasky, a systems analyst for one of the corporations that designed and built the ship he is to observe the Nimitz on its maneuvers. The ship's captain, Matthew Yelland, oversees training flights of the ship's compliment of F14A Tomcat fighter jets and A7 Corsair fighter-bombers. The USS Nimitz, one of the United States' largest aircraft carriers, is on maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
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