A U.S. Navy helicopter and a fighter jet crashed in the South China Sea on Oct. 26 in two separate incidents, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said. A MH-60R Seahawk helicopter went down at about 2:45 p.

Navy officials said that three crew members of an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter were rescued, while two aviators in the F/A-18F Super Hornet ejected from the jet before it went down. All five military members were in safe and stable condition, The Associated Press reported.

A Navy fighter jet and helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other Sunday afternoon, the U.S. Pacific Fleet said on social media. President Donald Trump Monday said “bad fuel” could be to blame for the “very unusual” dual crashes.

Two California-based naval aircraft crashed Sunday while conducting “routine operations” in the South China Sea, military officials said. A U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73 (HSM-73) of Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado,

A U.S. military helicopter and a jet fighter from the same aircraft carrier crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other on Sunday.All five crew members were rescued and are in stable condition,

All five crew members survived separate crashes of a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter and an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter in the South China Sea.

While the U.S. has lost numerous vessels in combat operations since its founding, there have been thousands of accidents during peacetime operations. Accidental explosions, running aground, and other mishaps have plagued U.

A US fighter jet and helicopter crashed within 30 minutes of each other, sparking a frantic rescue mission. Both aircrafts came down over the South China Sea on Sunday. The F/A-18F

Two US Navy aircraft crashed into the South China Sea in separate incidents on Sunday, officials said, with no fatalities reported.