Sounds like the crash happened during a recovery cycle. Once the plane went down the carrier would have immediately changed course and slowed to assist in the recovery of the pilot, possibly even launching additional helicopters or the ship's boats. This would have prevented the other five planes from landing. Had the ship been operating out of range of a dirvert field then the five others would have been recovered onboard but, since there was a divert option they sent all of the airborne aircraft there and went immediately into search mode.
It is also possible, but not stated in the article, that the plane crashed after attempting a landing, possibly dropping parts of itself onto the flight deck and creating a danger to any other planes trying to land. That would also have created the need to divert the airborne aircraft to shore.
shouldnt all that be a part of the training? I mean, for them to be ingaged in combat and suddenly stop everything to rescue one plane, wouldnt that interupt combat missions that are very important? I'm not very well educated on carrier landing and missions or military operations, just an inquiring mind.