For second time in 8 days, fighter jet assigned to USS Truman is lost in Red Sea

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For the 2nd clip successful conscionable implicit a week, an F/A-18E Super Hornet combatant pitchy assigned to the USS Harry S. Truman has been mislaid successful the Red Sea, a defence authoritative confirmed to CBS News. The 2 pilots aboard the craft sustained insignificant injuries successful the ordeal.

The authoritative said successful a connection that the Super Hornet was attempting to onshore connected the formation platform of the Truman Tuesday "when an arrestment failed, causing the craft to spell overboard."

An arrestment is the mechanics that a bearer uses to safely dilatory down and halt a combatant pitchy arsenic it lands.

"Both aviators safely ejected and were rescued by a chopper assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 11," the authoritative said. "The aviators were evaluated by aesculapian unit and assessed to person insignificant injuries. No formation platform unit were injured."

On April 28, a Super Hornet was being towed successful the Truman hangar bay erstwhile crews mislaid power of the craft and it went overboard, on with the tow tractor. One sailor suffered insignificant injuries successful the incident.

Two U.S. officials told CBS News that archetypal reports suggested the pitchy whitethorn person fallen overboard aft the bearer turned sharply portion taking evasive enactment against Yemen's Houthi militants.

Sean Parnell, a spokesperson for the Pentagon, said successful connection that the Super Hornet that went into the Red Sea Tuesday "was not struck by the Houthis."

The Truman Carrier Strike Group has experienced respective superior incidents since it deployed to the Middle East successful September 2024. In December, the USS Gettysburg mistakenly changeable down an F/A-18 which had taken disconnected from the Truman. The two-person unit were capable to safely eject.

In February, the Truman accidentally collided with a merchant vas adjacent the Suez Canal.

Also Tuesday, President Trump disclosed that the Iranian-backed Houthis had agreed to a woody that would spot them halt their attacks connected commercialized and subject vessels successful the Red Sea. Those attacks started successful the aftermath of Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, battle connected Israel.