$70M Navy F-18 fighter jet falls into Red Sea off the USS Harry S Truman

The U.S. Navy connected Monday said that an craft bearer liable for launching strikes successful the Red Sea against Houthi terrorists mislaid an F/A-18 Super Hornet that went overboard. 

The USS Harry S. Truman mislaid the combatant pitchy and a tow tractor portion operating successful the immense waterway. 

The level was actively nether tow successful a hangar bay erstwhile the unit mislaid power of the aircraft. The pitchy and tow past went overboard and were lost, the Navy said. 

Sailors towing the craft took "immediate action" to determination wide of the craft earlier it fell overboard, the Navy said.

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An F/A-18 Hornet combatant pitchy is seen landing connected the platform of the USS Harry S. Truman during a NATO workout successful May 2022. (Andreas Solero/AFP via Getty Images)

All naval unit were accounted for, though 1 sailor sustained insignificant injuries. An probe into the incidental is ongoing.

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The F-18 Super Hornet is estimated to outgo astir $67.4 million, according to the Navy Air Systems Command. 

This was not the archetypal combatant pitchy to autumn disconnected the USS Harry S. Truman. An F/A-18 Super Hornet was mislaid astatine oversea aft falling disconnected the craft bearer adjacent Naples, Italy, aft it was blown overboard by "unexpected" dense winds successful July 2022. 

In December 2024, an F/A-18 Super Hornet was changeable down implicit the Red Sea successful an evident "friendly fire" incident, the U.S. subject said astatine the time.

Despite the astir caller loss, the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, a conjugation of U.S. warships deployed to the Red Sea, and an aerial helping stay afloat mission-capable, officials said.

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This representation shows an craft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman successful the Red Sea earlier airstrikes successful Sanaa, Yemen, connected Saturday, March 15. (U.S. Navy via AP)

The onslaught radical consists of the Truman craft bearer and 9 squadrons of Carrier Air Wing 1, 3 guided-missile destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 28, and the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Gettysburg.

The craft bearer has been operating successful the Red Sea, wherever it has launched strikes against Houthi terrorists successful Yemen.  

The Iran-backed radical has claimed to person attacked the USS Harry S. Truman and its accompanying warships successful caller weeks, arsenic good arsenic against merchant vessels navigating the Red Sea.

Houthi fighters are pictured adjacent to U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Images/Getty Images)

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The attacks escalated aft President Donald Trump launched a subject run against the radical connected March 15. The Houthis person targeted ships successful the Red Sea successful solidarity with Hamas, pursuing its Oct. 7, 2023 onslaught connected Israel. 

The U.S. subject has pummeled implicit 800 targets since mid-March successful a run aimed astatine eliminating the Houthis, according to a caller update from U.S. Central Command. 

Fox News Digital's Lawrence Richard and The Associated Press contributed to this report.