{"id":24788,"date":"2025-10-27T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/24788\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:00:09","slug":"two-navy-aircraft-crash-in-south-china-sea-crews-from-california-based-squadrons-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/24788\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Navy aircraft crash in South China Sea; crews from California-based squadrons rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Two California-based U.S. Navy aircraft crashed Sunday in separate incidents while conducting routine operations from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">An MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73, based at Naval Air Station North Island near San Diego, went down at about 2:45 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">All three crew members were safely recovered by search and rescue teams from Carrier Strike Group 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">About 30 minutes later, an F\/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 22, known as the &#8220;Fighting Redcocks&#8221;, and based at Naval Air Station Lemoore in Central California, also crashed in the waters while operating from the Nimitz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Both crew members ejected and were rescued, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USPacificFleet\/status\/1982583083519140329\" rel=\"nofollow\">the statement said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Navy adds all five personnel involved in the crashes are safe and the cause of the crashes is now under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Stay with ABC30 for the latest details on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Two California-based U.S. Navy aircraft crashed Sunday in separate incidents while conducting routine operations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19135,7,9,8,350,19132,783,19133,19131,5923,10002,19130,19134],"class_list":["post-24788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-19135","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crash","tag-fighter","tag-helicopter","tag-jet","tag-nas-lemoore","tag-navy","tag-priority","tag-south-china-sea","tag-uss-nimitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}