- Two U.S. Navy aviators ejected as they were landing a plane on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier off the coast of Virginia Monday in a “mishap” that left four sailors aboard the vessel injured.
- The two aviators, assigned to Carrier Air Wing 3, ejected as “a mishap occurred during aircraft recovery operations” and were rescued by search and rescue personnel, the Navy said.
- Both were returned to the ship and were being evaluated by medical personnel. Four shipboard personnel were also receiving medical care, including one who was taken to a hospital in the Norfolk , Virginia, area for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
- The Navy did not say which type of two-seater plane was involved in the accident, nor what happened to the plane or what might have caused the accident.
- The nuclear-powered Nimitz-class USS Dwight D. Eisenhower was commissioned in 1977.
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Aviators eject into sea and four sailors are injured in dramatic USS Eisenhower crash
