{"id":175681,"date":"2025-10-27T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=175681"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:37:21","slug":"naval-aviation-bad-day-in-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175681","title":{"rendered":"Naval Aviation- Bad Day in the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-175682 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nimitz-300x168.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nimitz-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nimitz.webp 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>USS Nimitz (CVN-68)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Navy helicopter, jet crash in South China Sea in separate incidents<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Beth Sullivan<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A U.S. Navy helicopter and a fighter jet assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz crashed in the South China Sea on Sunday in separate incidents less than an hour apart, the Navy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll personnel involved are safe and in stable condition,\u201d U.S. Pacific Fleet said in a brief statement.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 2:45 p.m. local time, an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter attached to the Nimitz \u201cwent down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations,\u201d U.S. Pacific Fleet said. Assets assigned to the carrier\u2019s strike group rescued the helicopter\u2019s three crew members. The helicopter was assigned to the \u201cBattle Cats\u201d of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73.<\/p>\n<p>About 30 minutes later, at 3:15 p.m., an F\/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet from the Strike Fighter Squadron 22 \u201cFighting Redcocks\u201d also crashed in the South China Sea while conducting routine operations, according to the statement. Both crew members successfully ejected from the jet and were rescued, U.S. Pacific Fleet said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2025\/10\/27\/navy-helicopter-jet-crash-in-south-china-sea-in-separate-incidents\/\">Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very glad all are now safe. Thanks to Jeff for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USS Nimitz (CVN-68) Navy helicopter, jet crash in South China Sea in separate incidents By Beth &hellip; <a title=\"Naval Aviation- Bad Day in the South China Sea\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175681\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Naval Aviation- Bad Day in the South China Sea<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":175682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[703,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-navy","category-guest-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}