> A fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said.
>The three crew members of the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter were rescued on Sunday afternoon, and the two aviators in the F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet ejected and were recovered safely, and all five “are safe and in stable condition,” the fleet said in a statement.
>The causes of the two crashes were under investigation, the statement said.
And here we go with everyone losing their minds about what is almost certainly two unrelated incidents that happened to happen in quick succession. Just because something is improbable does not make it impossible.
IDK, I think finding a related cause would be reassuring. If you start seeing multiple sequential unrelated failures in a system you usually conclude the root cause is systemic.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 24.9 ms ] thread>The three crew members of the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter were rescued on Sunday afternoon, and the two aviators in the F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet ejected and were recovered safely, and all five “are safe and in stable condition,” the fleet said in a statement.
>The causes of the two crashes were under investigation, the statement said.
An expensive loss to be sure but no loss of life.