USS George Washington (CVN-73) returned to her home port of Yokosuka while USS Abraham Lincoln is now in Guam.
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.
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 incidents of losing the two aircraft from the USS Nimitz while the Bremerton-based aircraft carrier operated in the South China Sea in October remain under investigation.
Last week, the Navy recovered two aircraft that crashed into the South China Sea in two separate late October incidents off ...
From October 2023 to October 2025, the US Navy rotated multiple carrier strike groups to the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and ...
The U.S. Navy said it recovered an F/A-18F Super Hornet and a MH-60R Seahawk lost from USS Nimitz in two separate incidents ...
F Super Hornet and a MH-60R Sea Hawk that crashed off the USS Nimitz in back-to-back incidents have been recovered.
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The flattop, which operated from North Island for 11 years, is heading for Bremerton at the end of its final deployment.
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