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Navy Recovers Super Hornet Blown Overboard

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Navy Recovers Super Hornet Blown Overboard
The R/V Atlantis, a U.S. Navy owned research vessel, deploys the cable-controlled Undersea Recovery Vehicle (CURV-21) off the coast of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina in 2017 to help the Argentine Navy search for its ARA San Juan (S-42) submarine. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Lt. Alex Cornell du Houx/Released).

The Navy said it successfully recovered an F/A-18E Super Hornet that blew overboard from an aircraft carrier last month. The service previously said the aircraft was blown overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) on July 8 due to unexpectedly heavy weather in the Mediterranean Sea while the carrier was conducting a replenishment at sea (Defense Daily, July 11). The Navy now says the Super Hornet was recovered from about 9,500 feet deep by a team embarked on the…

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