Seems odd for two to ‘happen’ in the same operation...
Strange things do happen.
I was on the USS JFK in 1976 in the North Atlantic about 500 miles off Scotland when we had a new F-14 Tomcat carrying a Phoenix missile go over the side and were treading near to an incident with the Soviets who had a cruiser in the area and saw exactly where it went into the ocean. (They wanted to get their hands on that revolutionary missile, and were prepared to drag the ocean to get it...and nearly did)
Then that very evening, we had a collision while refueling a destroyer, putting it out of action.
Two unlikely things, happening within a 12 hour period. I was on the flight deck for both of those incidents!
Very odd. So those things do happen.