A critical system failed as a Super Hornet fighter jet was landing on USS Harry S. Truman. The jet slid off the deck into the Red Sea.

A U.S. Navy C-2A Greyhound Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) plane takes off and lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D.

Naval aviators believe they are the best pilots on earth — just ask them — and the primary reason they cite is hard to argue with: they land on aircraft carriers. Whether in calm seas and sunshine or ...

For most mere mortals, the act of landing a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier is beyond comprehension. Experienced pilots count it among the most difficult maneuvers to perform. Even if we look at ...

IWO JIMA, Japan — U.S. Navy pilots are preparing for the USS George Washington’s inaugural patrol from its new homeport in Japan, conducting carrier-landing drills that, for the first time, include ...

Few sights are more sobering than an aircraft skidding across the flight deck of a carrier with no way to stop. Pilots train endlessly for this scenario, and rescue crews rehearse every response, but ...