Episode 134 of "JAG"
s06e24 Adrift (1/2)

Mac becomes upset when Harm tells her at the last minute that he will not be attending her rehearsal duty in order to complete his 6-month required carrier landing qualifications. He assures her that he will be back in time for the wedding. At the church, Chloe is still wary of being friends of Mic. On board the USS Patrick Henry, Harm learns that the LSO who will be grading him thinks of him only as a "land-based Washington weenie". His fears that he won't be graded fairly are realized when he is ordered to land after his first attempt is waved off. After convincing the LSO that they were flying they way that the LSO taught them, he allows Harm to try again. After passing, he then completes his required night traps and requests to head back to Andrews AFB. With an approaching storm, all air operations are suspended, but is assured that he & Skates can be on the first Tomcat, once its forecasted to be safe. With a break in the storm, he & Skates are allowed to go. But the storm moves in faster then predicted, a problem with the aircraft's oxygen forces them to fly in the storm. With high winds, lightning strikes, flight systems fail one after another. Once all electronics go out, the plane is doomed. Harm orders Skates to eject, but only Skates seat fires. Harm has to fire his seat manually. Back at the rehearsal dinner, the group learns that Harm & Skates went down at sea. Patched into the carriers communications over a speaker-phone, they learned the SAR Helo finds a raft and pulls the person to safety... everyone learns that its Skates. With the weather too bad for the SAR team to continue, they are ordered back to the carrier -- with Harm still floating, somewhere in the Atlantic.