A F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet and a MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier both crashed into the South China Sea Sunday afternoon in separate aircraft mishaps. A ...

When a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier dropped a $60 million F/A-18 into the Red Sea in April 2025, it was one of several fiascos ...

Key Points and Summary - A pair of mishaps in 2025 — back-to-back accidents with a Sea Hawk and Super Hornet from USS Nimitz in the South China Sea and the USS Harry S. Truman’s collision with a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other, the Navy's Pacific Fleet said. The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of major accidents involving military aircraft spiked in 2024, internal Pentagon figures show, and a series of high-profile aviation mishaps with deaths and the loss of ...

An F/A-18E makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. (MC3 Julia Brockman/Navy) The number of major accidents involving military aircraft ...

It’s a big deal whenever an aircraft carrier loses a plane during a deployment. In a six-month span while deployed to the Red Sea this year, the USS Harry S. Truman lost three F/A-18 Super Hornets, ...

WASHINGTON — Serious U.S. military aviation mishaps rose significantly between 2020 and 2024, killing 90 people and costing billions in damage, according to new Pentagon data provided to Democratic ...