It's part of carrier aviation. You do lose planes fairly regularly, and you can't expect a carrier not to have losses. At least in this case, the pilot is OK.
Service on any warship has risk. Pilots on carriers have one of the most dangerous jobs at all.
And landing on a carrier deck at night is one of the trickiest things an aviator has to do. Glad to hear pilot is okay. This kinda thing happens alot.
I was told it was also true in the patrol squadrons. A VP pilot told me about several AOCS and flying-school classmates who were already dead by the time he got to sonar school. And that was 35 years ago -- carrier air was no less risky then.
"There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots."
You've got to be pretty bold to want to land a supersonic aircraft on an aircraft carrier.