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For the second time in just over a week, an F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet assigned to the USS Harry S. Truman has been lost in the Red Sea, a defense official confirmed to CBS News. The two pilots aboard the aircraft sustained minor injuries in the ordeal.
The official said in a statement that the Super Hornet was attempting to land on the flight deck of the Truman Tuesday "when an arrestment failed, causing the aircraft to go overboard."
An arrestment is the mechanism that a carrier uses to safely slow down and halt a fighter jet as it lands...
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