Federal investigators will focus on who was flying the plane, its recent maintenance history and if the pilot(s) lost control before it crashed.

Millions in military hardware fell to the seabed after a rare double mishap. Why did the Navy move so fast to retrieve it? And what was at risk if it didn't?

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 merchant ship near the Suez Canal — highlight a troubling pattern across the aircraft carrier fleet.

Last week, the Navy recovered two aircraft that crashed into the South China Sea in two separate late October incidents off of USS Nimitz (CVN-68), the sea service announced Tuesday. A contracted boat equipped with an unmanned system retrieved the F/A-18F Super Hornet and MH-60R Sea Hawk from a depth of approximately 400 feet.

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 aircraft in 2025 suggest the disturbing trend may be ...

The two aviators in the jet Monday were plucked from the sea and brought back to the carrier in good condition, the Navy said. The aircraft, an F/A-18 Super Hornet, had a mechanical problem during routine operations over the Philippine Sea in the Western ...

F Super Hornet and a MH-60R Sea Hawk that crashed off the USS Nimitz in back-to-back incidents have been recovered.

The families of two of the victims killed when a UPS cargo jet crashed at its World Port hub in Louisville, Kentucky, have launched wrongful death lawsuits.

The US Navy has recovered two aircraft that crashed into the South China Sea in October while flying off the USS Nimitz, the service said in a statement Tuesday.

The two aircraft—a F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet and an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter, lost in separate crashes in October—were recovered from a depth of around 400 feet.