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A fighter plane and a helicopter based on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz crashed in the South China Sea, 30 minutes away from each other on Sunday afternoon. navy‘S pacific fleet Said.
Three crew members in an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter were rescued, and two aviators in an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet ejected and were safely recovered, and all five “are in safe and stable condition,” the Fleet said in a statement.
The statement said the causes of both accidents are being investigated.
USS Nimitz returning to its home port at Naval Base Kitsap Washington After being posted in the state middle east for most of the summer as part of the U.S. response to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on commercial shipping. The carrier is on its final deployment before being decommissioned.
Another aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman suffered a series of accidents in recent months during a deployment to the Middle East.
In December, the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg accidentally shot down one of Truman’s F/A-18 jets.
Then, in April, another F/A-18 fighter plane slid off Truman’s hangar deck and went down. red sea,
And in May, an F/A fighter plane landing on a carrier in the Red Sea plunged into the water after apparently failing to grab hold of steel cables used to stop landing planes and its two pilots were forced to eject.
No sailors were killed in any of these accidents. The results of the investigation into those incidents have not yet been released.