F-35C that crashed into the carrier Vinson salvaged from South China Sea
By Diana Stancy Correll
Mar 3, 12:12 PM
U.S. 7th Fleet’s Task Force75 and Naval Sea Systems Command, embarked aboard the U.S. Navy-contracted diving support vessel Picasso, on March 2 retrieved the F-35C Lightning II aircraft that crashed during routine flight operations earlier this year in the South China Sea. (Navy courtesy photo)
The F-35C Joint Strike Fighter that encountered a “landing mishap” aboard the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson was salvaged Wednesday from the South China Sea.
The U.S. 7th Fleet’s Task Force 75 and Naval Sea Systems Command’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving pulled the jet up from a depth of approximately 12,400 feet, according to the 7th Fleet. The teams used a CURV-21 — a 6,400-pound, remotely operated deep ocean salvage vehicle — to heave the aircraft onto the diving support construction vessel Picasso.
“The task force’s expertise in rapid, scalable command, control and communications, agile logistics, organic security, and explosive ordnance disposal was the most flexible choice for the fleet commander to respond in a timely manner,” Capt. Gareth Healy, commodore of Task Force 75, said in a Navy news release.
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