It is by trying to avoid An attack by the Houthi rebels that the device has emptied over board. While the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman met in the Red Seaone of the combat aircraft he was carrying, an F/A-18 Super Hornet, slipped over board and damaged at sea, announced the navy in a statement relayed by CNN.
Committed to the fight against Houtis in Yemen, the USS Harry S. Truman was forced to make a tight turn to escape shots: the sailors then lost control of the fighter plane parked on board and the aircraft slipped into the sea.
“The F/A-18th was towed to the hangar when the towing team lost control of the aircraft. The device and the towing tractor switched over board, wrote the US Navy in its press release. The sailors who towed the aircraft immediately reacted to move away from the aircraft before it falls over board. An investigation is underway. »»
“The start of the turn is abrupt”
All the staff were found, and only one sailor was injured. The fighter plane F/A-18 costs more than $ 60 million (more than 52 million euros), according to the US Navy.
According to Carl Schuster, a former US Navy officer, interviewed by CNN, when the American aircraft carriers are attacked, it is the “zigzag” tactics which is implemented to “move the ship about 100 to 200 m from any probable point of aim”: “A series of alternating turns from 30 to 40 degrees. Each turn takes about 30 seconds in each direction, but the start of the turn is abrupt. It’s like advancing in zigzag. According to this expert, during these maneuvers, the building “lost from 10 to 15 degrees in the turn”. This would explain the fall of the fighting aircraft. A extremely rare accident.
