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US Navy plans to raise jet plane off Hawaii coral reef using inflatable cylinders

Dec. 02, 2023 00:02 AM EST

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy plans to use inflatable cylinders to lift and roll a jet plane off a coral reef in Hawaii before removal from the ocean waters where the aircraft crashed on Nov. 20. Rear Adm. Kevin Lenox, the commander of Carrier Strike Group 3 who is leading the...

A US Navy plane went into a Hawaii bay. Underwater video shows its tires are touching a coral reef

Nov. 29, 2023 22:08 PM EST

KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii (AP) — Tires from a large airplane that's been stuck in a Hawaii bay for more than a week are resting on parts of a reef, according to video the U.S. Navy released Wednesday as it figures out a plan to remove the aircraft. There were no injuries to the nine...

US Navy warship shoots down a drone launched by Houthis from Yemen

Nov. 29, 2023 19:46 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy warship sailing near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait shot down a drone launched from Yemen on Wednesday, the U.S. military said, in the latest in a string of threats from Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. U.S. Central Command said the USS Carney, a Navy...

US Navy removes fuel from plane that overshot Hawaii runway and is now resting on a reef and sand

Nov. 27, 2023 22:56 PM EST

KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. Navy said Monday that it has removed nearly all of the fuel from a large plane that overshot a Hawaii runway and landed in an environmentally sensitive bay, but it doesn't have a timetable for when it will get the aircraft out of the water. Rear...

US Navy seizes attackers who held Israel-linked tanker. Missiles from rebel-controlled Yemen follow

Nov. 26, 2023 23:44 PM EST

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Armed assailants seized and later let go of a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday before being apprehended by the United States Navy, officials said. Two ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen then landed near a U.S. warship...

Flight data recorder recovered from US Navy plane that overshot the runway near Honolulu

Nov. 25, 2023 16:09 PM EST

KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — The flight data recorder of a large U.S. Navy plane that overshot a runway and ended up in the water near Honolulu this week has been recovered as the military continues to plan for the aircraft’s removal. The Navy’s Aircraft Mishap Board is investigating...

No one was injured when a US Navy plane landed in a Hawaii bay, but some fear environmental damage

Nov. 22, 2023 00:47 AM EST

HONOLULU (AP) — A large U.S. Navy plane remained in a Hawaii bay Tuesday, the day after it overshot a runway and landed in the water, raising concern about environmental damage and questions over how the military would remove the aircraft. All nine people aboard the P-8A were...

Navy plane overshoots runway and ends up in ocean, but all 9 aboard escape unharmed

Nov. 21, 2023 06:48 AM EST

HONOLULU (AP) — A Navy plane flying in rainy weather overshot a runway Monday at a military base in Hawaii and splashed into Kaneohe Bay, but all nine aboard were uninjured, authorities said. The Coast Guard responded, but rescue operations were quickly called off, said Petty...

Deep sea explorer Don Walsh, part of 2-man crew to first reach deepest point of ocean, dies at 92

Nov. 20, 2023 18:34 PM EST

Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean — to the “snuff-colored ooze” at the bottom of the Pacific's Mariana Trench — has died. He was 92. Walsh died Nov. 12 at his home in...

Today in History: November 20, Future Queen Elizabeth marries Prince Philip

Nov. 20, 2023 00:12 AM EST

Today in History Today is Monday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2023. There are 41 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 20, 1947, Britain’s future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at...