Second Navy fighter jet goes overboard from Truman aircraft carrier, pilots ejected

Two U.S. Navy pilots ejected portion attempting to onshore a combatant pitchy connected an craft bearer connected Tuesday, resulting successful the craft being mislaid successful the Red Sea, the 2nd specified incidental successful a week, Department of Defense officials said. 

An F/A-18F Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 11, was landing connected the formation platform of USS Harry S. Truman "when the arrestment failed, causing the craft to spell overboard," the authoritative told Fox News Digital. 

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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 March 15. (U.S. Navy via AP)

Both pilots successful the craft ejected and were rescued. The warplane went overboard into the oversea and has not been recovered. 

"The aviators were evaluated by aesculapian unit and assessed to person insignificant injuries. No formation platform unit were injured," the authoritative said. 

The incidental occurred conscionable implicit a week aft different F/A-18F Super Hornet went overboard connected the USS Truman. 

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The USS Harry S. Truman astatine sea.  (U.S. Navy photograph by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Jose Hernandez)

The $67.4 cardinal craft was mislaid erstwhile it was actively nether tow successful a hangar bay erstwhile the unit mislaid power of the aircraft. 

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

At the time, officials said the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, a conjugation of U.S. warships deployed to the Red Sea, and an aerial helping remained afloat mission-capable. 

Armed rebels of the Iran-backed Houthi militia. (Osamah Yahya/picture confederation via Getty Images | REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)

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The onslaught radical comprises 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 bearer has been operating successful the Red Sea, wherever it has launched strikes against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists based successful Yemen. On Tuesday, Trump announced a ceasefire with the panic group.