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USS Truman Loses Yet Another Plane During its Deployment in the Red Sea [1]

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Date: 2025-05-07

The American aircraft carrier USS Truman has not been having a particularly good time during its current deployment in the Red Sea, facing off against the Houthis in Yemen.

Back in December, one of the accompanying guided-missile cruisers, the USS Gettysburg, managed to shoot down one of its own F/A-18 Super Hornets by mistake, presumably during a Houthi drone attack against the task force; and in February, the Truman accidentally collided with a merchant ship near the Suez Canal.

Then on April 28, a second Super Hornet that was being towed in the Truman’s hanger bay went overboard (along with the tow tractor) when the crew lost control during evasive maneuvers to avoid another Houthis drone/missile attack. And now CBS News is reporting a third Super Hornet has just been lost in yet another accident:

For the second time in just over a week, an F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet assigned to the USS Harry S. Truman has been lost in the Red Sea, a defense official confirmed to CBS News. The two pilots aboard the aircraft sustained minor injuries in the ordeal. The official said in a statement that the Super Hornet was attempting to land on the flight deck of the Truman Tuesday "when an arrestment failed, causing the aircraft to go overboard." An arrestment is the mechanism that a carrier uses to safely slow down and halt a fighter jet as it lands. "Both aviators safely ejected and were rescued by a helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 11," the official said. "The aviators were evaluated by medical personnel and assessed to have minor injuries. No flight deck personnel were injured."

Fortunately none of the personnel involved in any of these incidents has been seriously injured yet, nor have the Houthis been able to inflict any real damage yet to either ships or planes — but one does start to wonder why this particular task force keeps accumulating such embarrassing accidents.

Meanwhile, it looks like the ceasefire Trump announced with the Houthis yesterday, in which we agreed to stop bombing them and they agreed to stop attacking both our ships and neutral merchant shipping in the Red Sea, may actually be the real deal rather than just another of his increasingly incoherent pronouncements. From Newsweek:

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