Sign up for the Slatest to get essentially the most insightful evaluation, criticism, and recommendation on the market, delivered to your inbox every day.
Troubling information from the ocean as we speak: Apparently the crew of the USS Harry S. Truman plane provider has allowed an F-18 “Tremendous Hornet” fighter jet to fall into the water, the place it might probably not be used for its meant function of flying within the air, for the second time in per week:
The F/A-18F Tremendous Hornet jet, worth about $67 million, went overboard after an unsuccessful try to sluggish it down upon touchdown on the usHarry S. Truman, the Navy stated in a press release. Each aviators aboard the jet safely ejected and had been rescued at sea by helicopter with minor accidents, and nobody aboard the warship’s flight deck was harmed, the service stated.
That report is from the Washington Post, which notes that there have been additionally no severe accidents sustained throughout the Truman’s prior occasion of “airplane falling into ocean” one week in the past. In that incident, a jet being towed to its hangar went overboard, the army says, as a result of the provider (if we will nonetheless name it that, given its checkered historical past of carrying plane) swerved to keep away from Houthi insurgent hearth off the coast of Yemen within the Purple Sea.
A Enterprise Insider write-up of the incident briefly went viral on Wednesday night time as a result of its headline appeared to recommend a third jet had simply been misplaced from the Truman; the article was correct, however in mentioning a 3rd aircraft, it was truly referring to an incident last December during which a Truman-deployed Tremendous Hornet was by chance shot down by the USS Gettysburg missile cruiser. (Each of the aviators aboard survived.) So, so far as that third one, we didn’t let it fall off the ship, we simply shot it down ourselves.
