The latest F/A-18 Super Hornet crash off Virginia adds to a string of recent Navy mishaps after a pilot survived a water ...

In 1955, a R6D-1 Liftmaster went down in the deadliest heavier-than-air crash in U.S. naval aviation history. The flight was on route from Japan to California with an intermediate stop in Hawaii.

The Battle of Midway proved a disaster for Imperial Japan, with the loss of four top of the line aircraft carriers to determined American aerial attacks. The decision was made to convert the two ...

The aircraft's debris scattered in a radius of nearly 5 miles. The Marine Corps said in a statement on Tuesday that 15 Marines and a Navy Corpsman were aboard the aircraft and killed in the crash.

In June 2022, three military aircraft crashes occurred in Southern California within a week. On June 3, U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Richard Bullock was killed when his F/A-18E Super Hornet crashed near Trona.

Between 1991 and 2015, she completed only six patrols at sea. Aircraft carriers are, with the possible exception of submarines, the most complicated naval vessels afloat.

Some naval disasters happened during large sea battles. The huge Japanese battleship Yamato was sunk on April 7, 1945. Almost 2,500 Japanese sailors died. (This is the world’s largest warship.) ...

The training aircraft from Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Florida, went down about 45 miles to the southwest in Foley, according to Cmdr. Zach Harrell, spokesman for U.S. Naval Air Forces.

Navy T-6B Texan IIs at NAS Pensacola, Fla. US Navy Photo The head of naval aviation has ordered a safety stand down after two crashes last week only three days apart, the Navy announced on Monday ...