With the USS Carl Vinson finally on its way to North Korea after some initial “miscommunications” between the White House and the Pentagon, on Friday the aircraft carrier suffered another embarrassing moment when a F-18 pilot was forced to eject during an attempted landing on the deck of the Vinson in the Celebes Sea, south of the Philippines, the US Navy said in a statement. The pilot was recovered safely.
According to the US 7th Fleet Command, the incident occurred as the fighter jet was on final approach after “conducting routine flight operations” and is currently under investigation. The pilot is being assessed by the medical team on board USS Carl Vinson and there are no apparent injuries at this time. Full statement below:
USS Carl Vinson Pilot Ejects Safely at Sea
A pilot safely ejected and was quickly recovered by a helicopter assigned to HSC-4 aboard USS Carl Vinson while conducting routine flight operations during a transit in the Celebes Sea.
The incident occurred as the F/A-18E assigned to Carrier Air Wing 2 was on final approach to USS Carl Vinson. The incident is currently under investigation. The pilot is being assessed by the medical team on board USS Carl Vinson and there are no apparent injuries at this time.
The carrier group, currently located in proximity to the Philippines, is “steaming out toward the Sea of Japan” the White House said earlier this month. On April 15, however, the Navy posted a photograph on Flickr with a description placing the Carl Vinson in the Sunda Strait, several hundred miles south of Singapore. The Carl Vinson battle group was deployed in East Asia in January. According to the US Navy, the carrier is accompanied by the missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain, and destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer and USS Michael Murphy.
By: MSphere - 22nd April 2017 at 17:53
I’m sure Haavarla’s “get well soon” card is in the mail for the poor, poor F-18 pilot too.
Anyhoo, in response to the obvious intent of this thread, attrition ratio for russian naval fighter assets vs US in last 6 months is 1500 times higher, even though USN annual flight hours are roughly 4.13 times more. So russian navy loss rate per flight hour is 6200 times higher since december.
Russian Navy? :confused: Your point being?
By: APRichelieu - 22nd April 2017 at 17:33
Swiss F-18 Hornet found after crash | AIRHEADSFLY.COM | Aviation …
airheadsfly.com/2016/08/29/swiss-f-18-hornet-missing/The Aviationist » Canadian CF-18 crashes near Cold Lake killing pilot …
https://theaviationist.com/…/canadian-cf-18-crashes-near-cold-lake-killing-pilot-its-the…The Aviationist » Yet another U.S. F/A-18 has just crashed in Japan …
https://theaviationist.com/…/yet-another-u-s-fa-18-has-just-crashed-in-japan-its-the-9t…US Navy F-18 from carrier Carl Vinson crashes off the Philippines …
https://www.rt.com/usa/385606-us-navy-f18-crash/The F-18 Hornet is what is in question here. Not the US Navy.
The Hornet is not in question due to a Super Hornet crash,
not even if it is suggested by a Russian troll.
By: KGB - 22nd April 2017 at 17:00
I’m sure Haavarla’s “get well soon” card is in the mail for the poor, poor F-18 pilot too.
Anyhoo, in response to the obvious intent of this thread, attrition ratio for russian naval fighter assets vs US in last 6 months is 1500 times higher, even though USN annual flight hours are roughly 4.13 times more. So russian navy loss rate per flight hour is 6200 times higher since december.
Swiss F-18 Hornet found after crash | AIRHEADSFLY.COM | Aviation …
airheadsfly.com/2016/08/29/swiss-f-18-hornet-missing/
The Aviationist » Canadian CF-18 crashes near Cold Lake killing pilot …
https://theaviationist.com/…/canadian-cf-18-crashes-near-cold-lake-killing-pilot-its-the…
The Aviationist » Yet another U.S. F/A-18 has just crashed in Japan …
https://theaviationist.com/…/yet-another-u-s-fa-18-has-just-crashed-in-japan-its-the-9t…
US Navy F-18 from carrier Carl Vinson crashes off the Philippines …
https://www.rt.com/usa/385606-us-navy-f18-crash/
The F-18 Hornet is what is in question here. Not the US Navy.
By: ActionJackson - 22nd April 2017 at 11:22
I’m sure Haavarla’s “get well soon” card is in the mail for the poor, poor F-18 pilot too.
Anyhoo, in response to the obvious intent of this thread, attrition ratio for russian naval fighter assets vs US in last 6 months is 1500 times higher, even though USN annual flight hours are roughly 4.13 times more. So russian navy loss rate per flight hour is 6200 times higher since december.
By: MSphere - 22nd April 2017 at 10:05
Touching, you’ve spent more time typing about your concern for a single pilot than you have about concern for the thousands dying to military avaiation in Syria.
You can always donate them all your money and belongings..
By: haavarla - 22nd April 2017 at 03:41
Touching, you’ve spent more time typing about your concern for a single pilot than you have about concern for the thousands dying to military avaiation in Syria. Spare me the crocodile tears.
I was just intercepting mr menza’s implication this mission is turning out to be on the scale of embarassment of last year’s Russian trip (where an entire naval fleet was used to ferry 8 planes to an airbase).
I had my figures wrong above (us has many more naval aircraft than I thought) but statistically the attrition ratio of carrier based fighter aircraft between both navies has been 1500 times higher for the Russian navy since December last year.
Yes, perhaps it has. Does it make you feel good?
And thousands dying in Syria is ofcourse all Russias fault?
What about the several tousand bombing strike US did prior to Russia entering Syria.
But hey! Guess Russia is learning from the master.
How about the half a million in Iraq.
How about Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan?
How about the 1.5mill souls of forgotten backwash country like Vietnam?
Ooh, Russia has a lot of catching up to do here..
Don’t give me any crap about who’s dying in Syria. USA and half of west don’t give a rats @ss about the Syrian People. No they are much more interesting in how many aircraft lost in Carrier service among other things.
****in hypocrites!
Edit:
Russia may not be all right or inoccent in their influence in ME region. But at least they are transparent about their goals. In Syria, they are actually doing some means to reconcilliate the different interest in Syria. They are talking to them, shaping amnisty, arrange transport for certain groups to get out of troubled areas.
US however are funding Various Rebels in a country with civil war. US top agenda is besting Russia, Iran with any means, never mind how many corpse they have to walk over.
By: ActionJackson - 22nd April 2017 at 02:32
You seems awfully concerned with the material here.. how about the life of pilots.
Me, i’m glad he made it.
Touching, you’ve spent more time typing about your concern for a single pilot than you have about concern for the thousands dying to military avaiation in Syria. Spare me the crocodile tears.
I was just intercepting mr menza’s implication this mission is turning out to be on the scale of embarassment of last year’s Russian trip (where an entire naval fleet was used to ferry 8 planes to an airbase).
I had my figures wrong above (us has many more naval aircraft than I thought) but statistically the attrition ratio of carrier based fighter aircraft between both navies has been 1500 times higher for the Russian navy since December last year.
By: SpudmanWP - 22nd April 2017 at 01:46
Um… am I the only one who sees that it’s a Superhornet “F-18E” and not a “Classic Hornet”? (typo?)
By: haavarla - 22nd April 2017 at 00:59
Yawn… 1/4 of 1% of the US carrier fighter fleet lost within a 6 month period.
Please do wake us up when 20% of the fleet crashes within 3 weeks like the Kuz’s humiliating little cruise last year, mkay?
You seems awfully concerned with the material here.. how about the life of pilots.
Me, i’m glad he made it.
By: ActionJackson - 22nd April 2017 at 00:51
Yawn… 1/4 of 1% of the US carrier fighter fleet lost within a 6 month period.
Please do wake us up when 20% of the fleet crashes within 3 weeks like the Kuz’s humiliating little cruise last year, mkay?
By: KGB - 21st April 2017 at 23:57
There was the Swiss Hornet crash, then the Canadian one, then the US one off Japan. Now this.
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