The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost an F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet and a tow tractor when both fell overboard on Monday, the Navy said in a statement.

This incident marks the second Super Hornet that the Truman has lost while deployed to the Red Sea, and it is the third major mishap that has occurred aboard the aircraft carrier in the last several months.

“The F/A-18E was actively under tow in the hangar bay when the move crew lost control of the aircraft,” the statement said, adding the “sailors towing the aircraft took immediate action to move clear of the aircraft before it fell overboard.”

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A U.S. official confirmed to Military.com that initial reports indicated the Truman made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard.

CNN was the first outlet to report that detail.

In December, the USS Gettysburg, a Navy cruiser, downed another F/A-18 fighter jet from the Truman in a friendly fire incident. The jet’s two aviators were forced to eject, and one suffered minor injuries.

An individual F/A-18 fighter jet costs between $60 million and $70 million, depending on the configuration.

The pair of incidents are not the only mishaps that drew attention and headlines aboard the USS Harry S. Truman.

On Feb. 12, the Navy revealed the Truman had collided with a merchant vessel roughly half its size, the Besiktas-M, just before midnight local time while sailing near Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea.

The city, which sits at the northern opening to the Suez Canal, is an area of dense maritime traffic, with ships coming in and out of the canal, as well as others waiting to begin their transit.

The incident resulted in the firing of the ship’s commanding officer and a port visit to Souda Bay, Crete, to effect repairs.

The Truman left Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia at the end of September last year for this current deployment and has spent all but about a month of that time in the Red Sea conducting operations against the Houthis.

In March, the ship was nearing the end of its planned deployment when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth extended the carrier’s deployment by a month.

The extension meant that the USS Carl Vinson, another aircraft carrier, could arrive in the region to continue the campaign of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. In a statement released Sunday, U.S. Central Command said the military has struck more than 800 targets since it kicked off the bombing campaign against the Iranian-backed rebel group in mid-March.

In its statement, U.S. Central Command admitted to being intentionally secretive about most of the details surrounding its actions in the region “to preserve operational security.”

Officials in the Pentagon could not say when the Truman is set to return home.

In 2022, the USS Harry S. Truman lost an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet in the waters of the Mediterranean when the jet was blown overboard “due to unexpected heavy weather” as the ship was conducting an at-sea resupply.

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