A critical system failed as a Super Hornet fighter jet was landing on USS Harry S. Truman. The jet slid off the deck into the ...
Leadership failures, training gaps and malfunctioning equipment drove the preventable loss of three F/A-18 Super Hornets and ...
The U.S. Navy released details from their investigation into multiple incidents involving the USS Harry S. Truman during its ...
The Navy on Thursday released investigative reports into four mishaps that all involve the aircraft carrier USS Harry S.
On December 3, 1945, Lieutenant-Commander Eric Melrose Brown made aviation history by launching and landing a de Havilland ...
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How Emergency Landings Really Work on Aircraft Carriers

A routine carrier landing can turn into an emergency in seconds. In this video, we look at what happens when a pilot has no ...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Navy has begun to make plans to recover the F-35C fighter jet that crashed Monday after striking the deck of an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. The jet is the most ...
Whereas a land-based pilot can be expected to “grease” the runway, carrier landings demand that naval pilots make a controlled impact—essentially a crash aboard the deck. Landing on an aircraft ...
On November 23, 2012, China’s domestically developed J-15 carrier-based fighter jet successfully conducted its first landing on the deck of the Liaoning, the country’s first aircraft carrier. Shortly ...