Another US carrier-based fighter jet crashed into the sea

The USS Truman, CVN75, is carrying out missions in the Red Sea. The mission of the USS Truman is very direct, which is to bombard the Houthi armed forces in Yemen. The US Navy has launched multiple strikes against the areas controlled by the Houthi armed forces, and there are joint operations with Israel. When the USS Truman was attacking the Houthi armed forces, the US Navy was in bad luck. According to the announcement released by the US Navy, the US Navy lost another F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter on May 6. In fact, the US Navy had already had an F/A-18E/F carrier-based aircraft fall into the sea before. A few days later, another fighter fell into the sea, and all in the Red Sea. According to the information released by the US Navy, the F/A-18E/F fighter did not hook the arresting cable when landing, which caused the fighter to fall directly into the sea. The landing of aircraft carrier-based aircraft is very different from the landing of fighters at land-based airports. It requires high-speed landing so that it can achieve a go-around. The U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier has four arresting cables. If the last one is not hooked, the fighter jet will accelerate to take off, and it needs to maintain a high-speed landing posture. However, on May 6, the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18E/F fighter jet still failed and rushed directly into the sea. It is very likely that the throttle was not pushed to accelerate takeoff at the last moment, so the fighter jet rushed out of the aircraft carrier under inertia. Regarding the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18E/F fighter jet falling into the sea again, the U.S. Navy has ordered a thorough investigation. From the preliminary results, the main reason is that the landing posture is not accurate, so the arresting cable was not hooked. However, it is not ruled out that the arresting system has a malfunction, or there is a problem with the communication with the shipboard personnel, which led to the failure of the go-around.