BASKET SLAP DAMAGES SUPER HORNET

摘要

A December mid-flight refueling accident off the Virginia coast damaged a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet strike fighter, officials told Navy Times. The Dec. 16 incident involved two Super Hornets with Virginia-based Strike Fighter Squadron 106, according to Naval Air Forces spokesman Cmdr. Ronald Flanders. A F/A-18E was aerially refueling its F-variant counterpart in the Virginia Capes Operating Area when a "basket slap" occurred, sending foreign object debris into both engines of the receiving jet, he said.