{"id":169292,"date":"2025-05-08T07:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=169292"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:47:23","slug":"another-hornet-in-davy-jones-locker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=169292","title":{"rendered":"Another Hornet in Davy Jones’ Locker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea<\/h3>\n

By Konstantin Toropin<\/strong><\/p>\n

The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F\/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday — the third since it deployed to the Middle East — this time amid a landing incident that caused the jet to go overboard, defense officials confirmed to Military.com<\/p>\n

The incident comes just more than a week after the Truman lost an F\/A-18 jet and a connected tow tractor when the pair fell overboard while being towed around the carrier’s hangar deck.<\/p>\n

Officials said the most recent incident was caused by a failure in some part of the arresting equipment used to bring the jet to a halt on the carrier’s flight deck, and both aviators ejected safely from the aircraft.<\/p>\n

The pair of sailors were recovered by a rescue helicopter and found to have minor injuries, the defense officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Truman has had a hard deployment, from a collision at sea resulting in a new commanding officer, losing an -18 to friendly fire (lucky only one!), another over the side during evasive maneuvers, now this. The only saving grace is no lives have been lost and the injuries have been minor in nature. That and a Rescue Swimmer just scored a double, the lucky bastard.
\nHat tip to Mick for the head’s up.<\/p>\n