Swerve Bend That Corner and Lose a $60 Million Jet: US Navy Carrier Loses Aircraft Trying to Avoid Houthis

[Idaeo]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/politics/us-navy-jet-overboard/index.html

A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been “lost” at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was being towed on board, the Navy said in a statement on Monday.

A US official said that initial reports from the scene indicated that the Truman made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard. The Houthi rebel group claimed on Monday to have launched a drone and missile attack on the aircraft carrier, which is in the Red Sea as part of the US military’s major anti-Houthi operation.
All personnel are accounted for, and one sailor sustained a minor injury.

“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 statement said. “Sailors towing the aircraft took immediate action to move clear of the aircraft before it fell overboard. An investigation is underway.”

A second US official told CNN that the aircraft had sunk. An individual F/A-18 fighter jet costs more than $60 million, according to the Navy.


The Truman Carrier Strike Group is currently deployed in the Middle East and was in the Red Sea at the time of the incident. The Navy emphasized on Monday that the strike group and its air wing “remain fully mission capable.”

 

[TRUEST]

Wow. I wonder who the captain of that ship was. Probably trumps butler. Or chef. Nepotism is bad y’all.

 

[BangBike]

Just put it in some rice..

 

[Kasper KArr]

 

[CopiousX]

Wow. I wonder who the captain of that ship was. Probably trumps butler. Or chef. Nepotism is bad y’all.

Incompetence here is out of control.I think this is the same unit that shot their own jet out of the sky last Christmas in the same place.


Cant even go 6 months without lighting a hundred million dollars on fire.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/shoot-your-partner-out-of-the-sky-navy-brehs.1063123/

 

[JT-Money]

The Navy has been incompetently run for decades now. Not entirely shocked having seen how they operate up close.

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/middleeast/us-aircraft-carrier-harry-truman-collision-egypt-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Thats not incompetence, thats a fukking mistake.

Most likely they were at GQ and shyt was hectic. Obviously, turns like that rarely happen for ships those sizes so…


It’s war, it is what it is


No one died

 

[King]

Hold on tight and start tweaking while they start letting shyt go

 

[King]

Wow. I wonder who the captain of that ship was. Probably trumps butler. Or chef. Nepotism is bad y’all.

Nah Trump definitely has his butler flown in from El Salvador, that premium uncut butler

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]

wasn't me

 

[lowkey0z]

wtf, they had kodak steering the ship?

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Guess people didn’t read…


They were dodging enemy fire… I rather lose an overpriced plane than the whole ship


And they were in the middle of securing it and no crew got killed. shyt happens..

 

[King]

Guess people didn’t read…


They were dodging enemy fire… I rather lose an overpriced plane than the whole ship


And they were in the middle of securing it and no crew got killed. shyt happens..

That’s right breh, losing the equivalent of 17 million school lunches that could’ve gone to poor children ain’t nothing to us


Gotta bomb them revolutionary Arabs standing up against racist CACS in Ysreal living off US tax dollars


Hell it would’ve been even better if a few black soldiers fell overboard, considering they’re the main ones put on the front lines

Spoken like a true American

 

[MrLogic]

More and more as time passes the rest of the world gonna realized the US is a paper tiger

hate to see it being an American

but being black has me like this deep inside when we fail as a nation.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

That’s right breh, losing the equivalent of 17 million school lunches that could’ve gone to poor children ain’t nothing to us


Gotta bomb them revolutionary Arabs standing up against racist CACS in Ysreal living off US tax dollars


Hell it would’ve been even better if a few black soldiers fell overboard, considering they’re the main ones put on the front lines

Spoken like a true American

Spoken like a nikka that never got off his couch