It was claimed that a former airline colleague had his Navy wings pulled for hitting a telephone wire on a T-A4J instructor night proficiency solo out of NAS Kingsville.
Apparently it was the infamous buzz the girlfriend's house maneuver.
He somehow forgot to note the minor mishap in the hard book and the XO went ballistic when he found the damage the next morning. Or, so the story goes.
And, of course, my coworker was the system chief pilot.
A couple of fatal cable strikes come to mind.
The 1998 Marine EA-6B disaster in Italy where 20 people in a cable car were killed.
And the American Samoa Flag Day P-3 crash in 1980 where seven people, six on the plane, died.