{"id":36612,"date":"2025-10-27T02:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/a-us-navy-super-hornet-and-sea-hawk-from-the-same-aircraft-carrier-crashed-30-minutes-apart-in-the-south-china-sea\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T02:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:41:28","slug":"a-us-navy-super-hornet-and-sea-hawk-from-the-same-aircraft-carrier-crashed-30-minutes-apart-in-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/a-us-navy-super-hornet-and-sea-hawk-from-the-same-aircraft-carrier-crashed-30-minutes-apart-in-the-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"A US Navy Super Hornet and Sea Hawk from the same aircraft carrier crashed 30 minutes apart in the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68feccf5599d46a4ccc0df33?format=jpeg\" alt=\"An F\/A-18 Super Hornet takes off from a Nimitz aircraft carrier.\"\/><figcaption>A Super Hornet aboard the USS Nimitz crashed right after a Sea Hawk in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Petty Officer 3rd Class Rebekah Watkins via Smith Collection\/Gado\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Navy said that two aircraft deployed from the same carrier crashed separately on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>A Sea Hawk crashed at 2.15 p.m., while a Super Hornet went down half an hour later.<\/li>\n<li>The incidents coincide with Trump&#039;s Asia tour, which includes high-stakes trade talks with Xi Jinping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A US Navy F\/A-18F Super Hornet and an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter crashed in separate incidents on Sunday in the South China Sea, the US Pacific Fleet said.<\/p>\n<p>Both military aircraft had been deployed from the USS Nimitz and went down 30 minutes apart from each other during routine operations, the Navy said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;All personnel involved are safe and in stable condition. The cause of both incidents is currently under investigation,&quot; it said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the Sea Hawk was the first to go down at about 2.45 p.m. local time. It was assigned to the &quot;Battle Cats&quot; of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73.<\/p>\n<p>The three crew members on board were later rescued, the Navy said.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Hornet, from the &quot;Fighting Redcocks&quot; of Strike Fighter Squadron 22, crashed at 3:15 p.m., per the Navy. The statement added that both crew members had ejected just before the fighter jet went down.<\/p>\n<p>The separate incidents come as President Donald Trump engages in a diplomatic tour in Asia this week, which he kick-started with a meeting in Malaysia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The tour is expected to include a leg in China, where Trump is scheduled to meet China&#039;s leader, Xi Jinping. Trade is high on the agenda as the Trump administration threatens severe tariffs on China and tensions between Washington and Beijing continue to grow.<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday&#039;s crash marks the US Navy&#039;s fourth Super Hornet loss in the last 12 months. The first of the $60 million fighters was shot down last December by friendly fire over the Red Sea, while another two fell off their flight deck this spring.<\/p>\n<p>All three previously lost aircraft had been deployed on the USS Harry S. Truman, an aircraft carrier in the same class as the Nimitz.<\/p>\n<p>The MH-60R Sea Hawk is the Navy&#039;s most advanced variant of the Sea Hawk, which is essentially a sea-based version of the Black Hawk helicopter. Estimated to cost about $40 million, it&#039;s built for a wide variety of missions, including finding and attacking submarines, serving as a flying command post, or conducting rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Nimitz, commissioned in 1975, is the Navy&#039;s oldest aircraft carrier in service and is the lead ship of its class. The 50-year-old warship is scheduled to start its decommissioning process next year.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Super Hornet aboard the USS Nimitz crashed right after a Sea Hawk in the South China Sea. Petty Officer 3rd Class Rebekah Watkins via Smith Collection\/Gado\/Getty Images The Navy said that two aircraft deployed from the same carrier crashed separately on Sunday. A Sea Hawk crashed at 2.15 p.m., while a Super Hornet went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}