One of the planes was accidentally shot down by the cruiser USS Gettysburg, which also fired on another Super Hornet.

A critical system failed as a Super Hornet fighter jet was landing on USS Harry S. Truman. The jet slid off the deck into the ...

Leadership failures, training gaps and malfunctioning equipment drove the preventable loss of three F/A-18 Super Hornets and ...

The $60 million F/A-18 and a tow tractor slid off the USS Harry S. Truman while it evaded a Houthi missile attack, new documents show.

The US Navy lost three aircraft during the operation due to the lapses pointing towards the broader issues of operational ...

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 aircraft in 2025 ...

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 ...

The Harry S. Truman carrier strike group’s nine-month deployment, which ended in late May, included four mishaps resulting in the loss of nearly $100 million in equipment. While no U.S. personnel were ...

In this video, we break down the alarming string of mishaps surrounding the USS Harry S. Truman after two F-18 Super Hornets ...

Two navy aircraft from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier crashed just 30 minutes apart into the South China sea over the weekend – but all five crew members from both craft were mercifully rescued ...

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 ...