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The USS Harry S. Truman, operating successful the Red Sea, has mislaid a combatant pitchy assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136, on with a tow tractor.
The United States Navy, successful a connection connected Monday, confirmed that each unit person been accounted for, with 1 sailor sustaining a insignificant injury.
The jet, an F/A-18E Super Hornet, was being actively towed successful the hangar bay erstwhile the determination unit mislaid power of the aircraft.
The U.S. Navy noted that the sailors towing the craft took contiguous enactment to determination wide earlier the craft fell into the ocean.
An probe has commenced to ascertain the origin of the incidental aboard the flagship craft carrier, named aft the 33rd President of the United States.
“The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group and embarked aerial helping stay afloat ngo capable,” the connection added.
The radical comprises the Harry S. Truman, 9 squadrons of Carrier Air Wing 1, the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64), and 3 guided-missile destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 28.
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