A U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft and anti-submarine warfare aircraft skidded off the runway while landing at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, and crashed into the sea. The accident occurred around 2pm yesterday (local time), according to Lieutenant Mohammad N. Issa, Third Fleet public relations officer. All personnel and crew were “safely evacuated” from the aircraft, which was assigned to the “Skinny Dragons” squadron based in Washington state. According to a statement, the crew and aircraft were part of a “mission to support the maritime defense of the national territory”. The causes of the accident are under investigation.
The images, which were soon also published on the web, show the plane standing with its wings just above the waterline in Kaneohe Bay, off the coast of the Marine Corps base in Hawaii, on the main island of Oahu. , north of the capital. Honolulu. Visibility was reduced to about a mile at the time of the accident, with winds gusting up to 21 miles per hour and fog, according to the National Weather Service. Although official confirmation is lacking, this could be a possible cause of the accident. “The P-8A, a militarized version of the Boeing 737, is the most advanced long-range maritime patrol aircraft in the world”: this is what we read on the US Indo-Pacific Command website.
Source: IL Tempo
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