For the second time in 8 days, a USS TRUman is lost in the Red Sea

For the second time in a little more than a week, the F/A-18E SUPER Hornet Fighter lost a USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea, according to the defense official of CBS News. The two pilots on board the plane were slightly injured in the ordeal.

The official said in a statement that Super Hornet was trying to land on the surface of the flight in Truman Tuesday “when a faction, causing the plane to go.”

The arrest is the mechanism that the carrier uses to slowly slow down a combat plane and stop a combat plane while landing.

“No pilots who were expelled safely and rescued by a helicopter for the shell of the helicopter (HSC) 11,” the official said. “The pilots were evaluated by the medical staff and evaluated minor injuries. None of the aviation surface members was injured.”

On April 28, Super Hornena It was pulled in the Bay of Truman Hangar when the crews lost control of the plane and went out, along with the cloud tractor. One seas suffered a minor injury in the accident.

Two US officials told CBS News that initial reports indicate that the plane may have landed abroad after the carrier turned sharply while taking evasive measures against Houthi militants in Yemen.

The Pentagon’s spokesperson, the Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement that the super Hornet, who went to the Red Sea on Tuesday, “did not get the Houthis.”

The Truman Carrier Strike collection has seen several serious incidents since its publication in the Middle East in September 2024. In December, USS Gettysburg I was mistakenly dropped And F/A-18 that took off from Truman. The crew managed to go out safely.

In February I collided by mistake With a commercial ship near the Suez Canal.

Also Tuesday, President Trump Detected The Iranian -backed Houthis have agreed to a deal that would prevent them from their attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea. These attacks began in the wake of Hamas on October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel.