Fighter Jet falls off Carrier...OOOPS

[thumper18474]

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

 

[bazokajoe]

oops is right.
Someone is going to be in big shit.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

It happens more often than you know. When a aircraft carrier is landing an aircraft or launching one. There is a rescue team ready to recover personnel in the water.

 

[luvstofap]

Someone is going to get their asses kicked for this.

 

[nottyboi]

It happens more often than you know. When a aircraft carrier is landing an aircraft or launching one. There is a rescue team ready to recover personnel in the water.

Apparently not in flight ops, it was being towed and the Houthis fired a missile, carrier took evasive manuvers and the tow vehicle and plane slid of the deck ...

 

[Frankfooter]

Apparently not in flight ops, it was being towed and the Houthis fired a missile, carrier took evasive manuvers and the tow vehicle and plane slid of the deck ...

Add that to fighter's price to the $1 billion the US has spent bombing the poorest country in the world on behalf of settler colonialism.