In the Flashpoint universe, the shark jumps you!

[superboyprime]

Ferris Air: Where Courage Takes Flight...

Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris are patrolling the coast when their instruments pick up something underwater. Suddenly:

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[silicondream]

Oh, shut up with the gigahertz and nanoseconds, you Your attempts to apply "logic" and "reason" to this are like a knife fight in a phone booth!

I was about to suggest that maybe she couldn't survive those speeds once he cracked the canopy. But since Hal can apparently take Mach 4 to the face without blinking, and both humans are blithely parachuting out of a high-speed midair explosion without a scratch, I think I'll have to go to my backup explanation of "the writer was drunk."

As a bonus, that also explains:

why Hal crashed into Carol instead of just letting King Shark go down with her plane, if she was going to eject anyway;

why King Shark didn't get knocked off the plane when Carol ejected, even though he was basically sitting on her canopy when she blew it, and;

how King Shark was able to cling to the plane while it flew upside down, despite not being Spider-Man and apparently not holding on to much of anything.