31 March 2011

FA-18 Explodes on U.S.S. Stennis


A mishap occurred during flight operations aboard the U.S.S. John C. Stennis (CVN-74). The nuclear powered aircraft was on a training cruise on the Southern Californian coast. Early reports say that an engine installed on an FA-18 fighter jet exploded injuring 10 sailors on the flight deck.
Although 4 were airlifted to hospital in San Diego, the Navy stated that none of the injures are serious or life threatening.

An investigation is being conducted to discover the cause of the engine explosion which caused an estimated one million dollars of damage.

7 comments:

PhooBar said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
PhooBar said...

Meant to say,

AB blowout on the cat?

Anonymous said...

"Nuclear powered aircraft?"

Cooper said...

Thanks for sharing your experiences here on your blog --- I enjoyed this post, and I'm looking forward to more.

Radio Dog Fencing said...

These kind of post are always inspiring and I prefer to read quality content so I'm happy to find many good point here in the post. Writing is simply great! Thank you for the post.

John Alex said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Colin Seal said...

This is my very first time I visited here. I discovered numerous cool stuff in your website especially its discussion. From the tons of feedback in your articles, I suppose I am not the one getting all of the enjoyment right here! Proceed the excellent job.

Kind Regards,

Colin Seal
https://vimeo.com/80244341