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US fighter jet rolls off aircraft carrier, sinks into ocean, Navy says
ABC News ^ | April 28, 2025 | Anne Flaherty

Posted on 04/28/2025 5:06:45 PM PDT by Red Badger

An F/A-18E fighter jet rolled off the side an aircraft carrier and sank to the bottom of the Red Sea, the Navy announced on Monday.

There was one enlisted crew member aboard the jet and a second enlisted crew member inside the tractor when the incident occurred.

Both personnel were able to jump out in time with only one person sustaining a minor injury, according to officials.

In the extraordinary mishap, the $70 million jet was being towed out of the hanger bay of the USS Harry S. Truman when the crew lost control.

"The F/A-18E was actively under tow in the hangar bay when the move crew lost control of the aircraft. The aircraft and tow tractor were lost overboard," the Navy wrote in a statement.

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1 posted on 04/28/2025 5:06:45 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; A.A. Cunningham; ...

AVIATION PING!.............SORT OF..............


2 posted on 04/28/2025 5:07:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; A.A. Cunningham; ...

AVIATION PING!.............SORT OF..............


3 posted on 04/28/2025 5:07:25 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Somebody’s going to get fired for this one.


4 posted on 04/28/2025 5:08:21 PM PDT by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
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To: Red Badger

Submarine ping?


5 posted on 04/28/2025 5:08:53 PM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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To: Red Badger

Any plans for a recovery operation of the equipment?


6 posted on 04/28/2025 5:09:27 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Red Badger

DEI PING!!!!!


7 posted on 04/28/2025 5:10:14 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Red Badger
The tractor driver dropped her makeup purse and lost control when she went to pick it up.

8 posted on 04/28/2025 5:10:35 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Red Badger

Hegseth is going to get hit with far-left, “Media” dog feces for this one. It’s all Hegseth’s, Musk’s, and Trump’s fault. Ask any far-left, little old lady tromping, Molotov throwing, Bettlejuice Conga line dancer and childish “protest” sign makers.


9 posted on 04/28/2025 5:12:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. "Judiciary. Putting Foreign Illegal Aliens Criminals first. They are here ILLEGALLY!)
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To: Red Badger

You know where I used to work and what I did.

For over 30 years I read reports and heard stories of lost and damaged aircraft (many being F18s) in a myriad of ways, but this is a new one on me.


10 posted on 04/28/2025 5:12:42 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

Glad no one was killed or seriously hurt, though, wow, can’t say I’ve heard of that happening before. I bet that’s coming out of their pay!


11 posted on 04/28/2025 5:13:24 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: Red Badger

A billion here, a billion there... pretty quick we are talking real money


12 posted on 04/28/2025 5:13:39 PM PDT by South Dakota (Vance / Trump...2028 )
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To: Frank Drebin

Good question. I wouldn’t want that plane falling into the hands of an enemy, operational or not.


13 posted on 04/28/2025 5:14:02 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: Red Badger

oops


14 posted on 04/28/2025 5:14:14 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: Red Badger

Houthis claim victory!


15 posted on 04/28/2025 5:14:37 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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Heel Port ! Spalsh !


16 posted on 04/28/2025 5:15:04 PM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Someone checking their cell phone?


17 posted on 04/28/2025 5:20:17 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Red Badger

We had a couple of these events on the Forrestal (CVA-59) in the late ‘60s


18 posted on 04/28/2025 5:21:17 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Red Badger

Oopsie!


19 posted on 04/28/2025 5:24:33 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Red Badger

Not the first time. I remember a jet aircraft rolling off an aircraft carrier in the late 1960s or early 1970s. A Soviet sub watched it happen so the carrier started recovery efforts to retrieve the jet so it would not fall into enemy hands.


20 posted on 04/28/2025 5:24:48 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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