Washington:
A multi-million-dollar US warplane fell off the Harry S. Truman plane provider into the Crimson Sea on Monday in an accident that injured one sailor, the Navy mentioned.
A tractor that was towing the fighter aircraft — a mannequin that value $67 million in 2021 — additionally slipped off the ship into the ocean.
“The F/A-18E was actively beneath tow within the hangar bay when the transfer crew misplaced management of the plane. The plane and tow tractor had been misplaced overboard,” the Navy mentioned in an announcement.
“Sailors towing the plane took speedy motion to maneuver away from the plane earlier than it fell overboard,” it mentioned. “All personnel are accounted for, with one sailor sustaining a minor harm.”
The provider and its different planes stay in motion and the incident is beneath investigation, the Navy added. No particulars of restoration work had been launched.
It’s the second F/A-18 working off the Truman to be misplaced in lower than six months, after one other was mistakenly shot down by the USS Gettysburg guided missile cruiser late final yr in incident that each pilots survived.
The Truman is considered one of two US plane carriers working within the Center East, the place US forces have been hammering Yemen’s Huthi rebels with strikes since mid-March in an try to finish the menace they pose to ships within the area.
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