A fighter plane crashed in the second navy in the Red Sea, forced the pilots to direct
The navy lost the F/A-18 Super Hornet Fighter from the USS Harry S. Truman carrier in the Red Sea, a week after another plane sank in the water, a defense official confirmed the hill on Wednesday.
The official said the F/A-18 fighter plane was landing on the aircraft carrier “when the arrest failed, causing the plane to go.” The arrest is the use of the hook system to capture the steel wire ropes on the surface of the flight while it is landing, and it is not clear what is part of the system failed.
When the fighter went abroad, its pilots were forced to take out, but they were rescued by a search and rescue helicopter and they were only slightly injured, with a flight surface staff not injured, according to the official.
The loss of more than 60 million dollars in the super Hornet is the latest accident on Truman, as an American raid against Houthi militants participates in Yemen, which started on March 15.
The aircraft carrier has lost at least three F/A-18 since December, when this first plane was mistakenly launched on the Red Sea by USS Gettysburg, although both pilots were safely out.
Truman lost the second Super Hornet on April 28 when the plane “was active in the Gulf of the barn when the movement crew lost control of the plane” and fell at sea, according to the Navy. Initial reports indicated that the carrier was forced to shift the difficult to evade the Houthi fire, which led to the slide of F/A-18 from the deck.
The carrier had to undergo repairs earlier this year after February collided with a commercial ship near Egypt, which led to the exemption of the ship’s captain.
The Houthis have targeted marine ships repeatedly in the Red Sea since the militants began attacking commercial and military ships in the waterway in November 2023, shortly after Israel began its brutal campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
President Trump announced on Tuesday that a ceasefire has been reached with the Houthis and that they would not attack ships in the Red Sea, although it is unclear whether the rebel group had agreed.
