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The 🇺🇸 USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier collided with a merchant ship near Port Said off the coast of Egypt, the Navy said.

The shock collision occurred late Wednesday evening as both ships were sailing in waters near the port, but the incident did not cause any damage.

The Navy said there are no reports of flooding or injuries as a result of the crash, and there was no damage to the aircraft carrier's propulsion systems, the military branch said in a statement.

A defense official told The Independant that the merchant ship, the 617-foot Besiktas-M, was also not damaged in the incident, and none of its crew were injured.

It is not clear what caused the collision and the military launched an investigation, however an official told CNN that it occurred in an area near the Suez Canal that often sees congested shipping traffic.

The nuclear-powered, 1,100-foot USS Harry S. Truman is typically based in Virginia, but was deployed in September to the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Its last port call before the collision was reportedly a week ago in Souda Bay, Greece.

The Besiktas-M, which sails with the Panamanian flag, had sailed through the Suez Canal shortly before the collision.

The vessel was on route to Romania before the incident, according to ship monitoring website Marine traffic.

At the same moment, the USS Harry S. Truman was sailing toward the Suez Canal when it crossed courses with the merchant ship.

Former US Navy captain Carl Schuster, an instructor at Hawaii Pacific University, told CNN that heavy shipping traffic around the Suez Canal can leave little margin for error.

'There is not a lot of room for maneuvering in a restricted seaway and both ships require about one nautical mile to stop,' Schuster said.

He said issues such as misreading of another ship's course, delayed decision making from the crew or minor navigational mistakes would have left the aircraft carrier 'with very few viable options.'

The last known collision between a US aircraft carrier and a merchant vessel occured over two decades ago on July 22, 2004, when the USS John F. Kennedy struck a sailing vessel in the Persian Gulf.

In 2017, two aircraft carriers struck cargo ships, first in June of that year when the USS Fitzgerald collided with a cargo ship off Japan.

Two months later, 10 sailors were killed when the USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker off Singapore.

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Gross incompetence.

They should send their sailors and pilots to Nigeria for proper training. It's becoming too embarrassing.

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Nawa oh

This Mputin worshipper and foolish news lol


Your master Putin is waiting desperately for US President Donald Trump to intervene and help him end the senseless war he started in Ukraine while you his asslickers are cheering him on foolishly and mocking the same US Russia is looking up to, life no balance sha

WriterNig:
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Oga stop disturbing the mods. You're Just going around stalking the US. A country that your russia can only dream of becoming.

franchasofficia:
This Mputin worshipper and foolish news lol


Your master Putin is waiting desperately for US President Donald Trump to intervene and help him end the senseless war he started in Ukraine while you his asslickers are cheering him on foolishly and mocking the same US Russia is looking up to, life no balance sha

Seriously, I can't understand how someone will be just obsessed with the USA. Is he an Al-Qaeda member or what?

Hmm....professional foul.

SeverusSnape:

Seriously, I can't understand how someone will be just obsessed with the USA. Is he an Al-Qaeda member or what?

Some things could have led to his foolish hatred for USA.

1.) He was denied US visa several times

2.) He is a Moslem Terrorist

3.) Both two scenarios above could be at play

Cyber warfare unleashed, I said it last that all those crashes can't just normal. Possibly some oops are jamming n interfering.

That name truman
Reminds me of uma truman
American actress who featured in the movie kill bill.

Thank God no life was lost.

franchasofficia:
This Mputin worshipper and foolish news lol


Your master Putin is waiting desperately for US President Donald Trump to intervene and help him end the senseless war he started in Ukraine while you his asslickers are cheering him on foolishly and mocking the same US Russia is looking up to, life no balance sha

Na this kind news dey sweet WriterNg.

Hypocrites making comments above me. They feel pained about their Lord and Master.

No one will be spared in Trump's istration. The wicked shall be exposed.

Just barely a month into his istration and imagine the number of half-baked, quack pilots, sailors and drivers that have been exposed in the United States.

Hmmmm ... America

Normal

United States of America now United States of accidents

They need to come see a real Woli for cleansing with the holy cane and some sacrifices to avert the evil hand upon them

America has by far worlds largest military aircraft fleet and weaponry.

They currently have over thirteen thousand military planes. No country comes close at all.

However, many of their military equipments are depreciating fastly and lacking proper maintenance due to cost and age.

That's one of the reasons they are experiencing accidents nowadays.

You need lots of money to maintain lots of assets. I believe that is one of the reasons Trump is smartly fighting against de-dollarization. So that the free monies can continue to flow in.

Ok

Recent news of airplane mishaps in the US is very worrisome. This is proving Trump right when he said that Biden employed quaks pilots and other employees in the aviation industries

sigh

SeverusSnape:

Seriously, I can't understand how someone will be just obsessed with the USA. Is he an Al-Qaeda member or what?

He was denied US Visa

Wahala on land,wahala in the air and also wahala at sea.....which place come safe?

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Okay

WriterNig:
Gross incompetence.

They should send their sailors and pilots to Nigeria for proper training. It's becoming too embarrassing.

👍🏻 Like for 🇳🇬 Nigeria, share for 🇺🇸 USA

So, accident can not happen to US warships and aircrafts again ba? You're placing them on a standard because you know they are the gods of earth.

franchasofficia:
This Mputin worshipper and foolish news lol


Your master Putin is waiting desperately for US President Donald Trump to intervene and help him end the senseless war he started in Ukraine while you his asslickers are cheering him on foolishly and mocking the same US Russia is looking up to, life no balance sha

Jokes on you.

It's actually the opposite. They are the ones begging Russia to sit down to negotiate but Russia has refused. They have used force, it did not work hence their frustration.

There's no day Trump doesn't talk about Putin or hail him.

Even yesterday he talked about Russia's greatness.

He looks up to Putin and ires him. It's no longer a secret.

I thought it's something impossible until today