US Navy Jet Veers off Runway, Plunges into Waters off Hawaii

On Monday, a P-8A Poseidon aircraft, a US Navy reconnaissance jet carrying nine crew members, crashed into the water near the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The incident occurred after overshooting the runway at a US Marine Corps base located there. Thankfully, there were no casualties among the crew members aboard the twin-engine multimission patrol and reconnaissance jet, which has the airframe of a Boeing 737 passenger plane, as confirmed by Marine Corps spokesperson 1st Lt. Hailey Harms.

Harms stated that the condition of the nine personnel on board was under evaluation.

Images depicted the aircraft positioned upright, with its wings slightly above the waterline in Kaneohe Bay, located off Marine Corps Base Hawaii on the primary island of Oahu, situated to the north of the capital city of Honolulu.

Visibility during the incident was limited to approximately one mile, accompanied by wind gusts reaching up to 21 miles per hour and mist, as reported by the National Weather Service.

The P-8A Poseidon serves as a valuable asset for the operations of the US Navy.

The aircraft is capable of carrying both torpedoes and cruise missiles, allowing it to effectively conduct missions in antisubmarine and antisurface warfare, as well as intelligence gathering.

In a recent incident over the South China Sea, a P-8A aircraft, with a CNN crew on board, was intercepted by a Chinese fighter jet. This encounter involved the Chinese plane coming within 500 feet of the P-8A.

P-8 aircraft are also flown by the Australian, New Zealand, British, Norwegian and Indian militaries, according to Boeing.

CNNs Sara Tonks and Taylor Ward contributed to this report.