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Collision of an American Warplane in Persian Gulf

Wednesday 13 May 2015
Collision of an American Warplane in Persian Gulf

Alwaght - The US military announced that an American warplane smashed after taking off from a carrier in the Persian Gulf. Also another Marine chopper has disappeared in Nepal.

 The US warplane that crashed was a F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet that took off from the USS Theodore Roosevelt at around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

The US Navy did not announce the cause of the crash but suggested it was an accident.

“The crash was not a result of hostile activity,” the US Navy said in a statement that was issued by Fifth Fleet, which is responsible for the area where the USS Theodore Roosevelt is deployed.

The Navy is currently investigating the cause of the crash.

It was reported that the two personnel from the fighter jet ejected and were quickly recovered by search and rescue personnel from the carrier.

The aircraft carrier was in the Northern Persian Gulf, to support the US-led airstrikes against the ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

The aircraft belongs to the Strike Fighter Squadron 211 based at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, and is assigned to Carrier Air Wing One.

 

Chopper vanished

Meanwhile, the US military also announced that one of its Marine helicopters went missing on Tuesday in Nepal.

The UH-1Y Huey with two Nepalese soldiers and six US Marines on board disappeared over Charikot, Nepal, at about 10:00 p.m. local time, according to US Pacific Command spokesman Army Maj. Dave Eastburn.

Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said the US military is hopeful that the missing helicopter landed and is out of communication.

A nearby Indian helicopter heard radio conversation about a possible fuel problem from the copter, which was in Nepal to deliver aid to victims of a recent earthquake, Warren told the Associated Press.

As no smoke was seen in the area hopes remained that the helicopter did not crash and just lost contact.

A 90-minute search was conducted in the area that the UH-1Y Huey had last been seen by a Nepalese air brigade but nothing was found, Warren said

As it was getting dark, members of the Nepalese Army started search on foot and were heading for the second aid location to check out if it landed there.

 The incident occurred on a day that a 7.3 magnitude aftershock rocked the country following last month’s 7.8 magnitude quake.

The aftershock was said to be the strongest since the time.

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