Shortly after an F/A-18 Super Hornet was by accident shot down in a pleasant hearth accident over the Red Sea earlier this week, a second F/A-18 Super Hornet got here inside ft of additionally being shot down.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) mentioned in a press release that the 2 pilots from the aircraft that was shot down ejected safely after their aircraft was “shot down in an obvious case of pleasant hearth.”
“The guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64), which is a part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired on and hit the F/A-18, which was flying off the USS Harry S. Truman,” the assertion mentioned.
Both pilots have been safely recovered from the Red Sea, CENTCOM mentioned.
SCOOP: A second US Navy fighter jet narrowly prevented being shot down in ‘pleasant hearth’ incident when a second missile handed inside 100 ft: supply
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Fox News reported on Tuesday {that a} second F/A-18 Super Hornet that was flying a number of miles behind the downed fighter jet “was pressured to take evasive maneuvers after a second surface-to-air missile was fired from the cruiser USS Gettysburg, narrowly lacking the second jet by 100 ft whereas it ready to land aboard the plane provider Harry S. Truman.”
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The U.S. Navy official who spoke to Fox News mentioned that the fighter jet that was shot down was within the technique of touchdown when it was shot down.
“It was a tanker crew returning to land on the provider about 10 miles out,” the supply mentioned. “They acknowledged the missile was guiding and punched out about three seconds earlier than the missile hit the jet.”
The supply indicated that fighter pilots have been livid over the incident and that they questioned the coaching on the USS Gettysburg.
