For the second time in a little more than a week, a F/A-18E Super Hornet Fighter Jet, which was assigned to the USS Harry S. Truman, has been lost in the Red Sea, a defense officer confirmed the CBS News. The two pilots on board the aircraft suffered minor injuries in the ordeal.
In a statement, the official said that the Super Hornet tried to “land” on Tuesday’s Truman flight deck on Tuesday, “when an arrest failed, which led to the aircraft going overboard”.
An arrest is the mechanism that contains a cake to catch a fighter jet and to safely slow it down when it ends up.
“Both aviators were safely emitted and were saved by a helicopter that was assigned to the helicopter seaside steam squadron (HSC) 11,” said the official. “The planes were evaluated by the medical staff and evaluated for minor injuries. No aircraft personnel were violated.”
On April 28th, a super hornet was towed in the Truman Hangar Bay when the crews lost control of the plane and went overboard together with the towing tractor. A sailor suffered minor injuries in the incident.
Two US officials said CBS News that the first reports pointed out that the jet may have fallen overboard after the airline had a lot of teasing while taking alternating measures against the Houthi militants of Yemen.
Sean Parnell, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said in the explanation that the Super Hornet, which went into the Red Sea on Tuesday, “was not impressed by the Houthis”.
The Truman Carrier Strike Group has experienced several serious incidents since its operation in September 2024. In December the USS Gettysburg wrongly shot down An F/A-18 that had taken from the Truman. The two-person crew was able to throw out safely.
The Truman in February accidentally collided With a dealer ship near the Suez channel.
Also Tuesday, President Trump revealed That the Iranian supported Houthis had agreed to a deal in which they would set their attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea. These attacks began after the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
