Sailors were towing the F/A-18 fighter jet into the hangar bay when they lost control of the aircraft.
The US president is under growing pressure to sack his most controversial cabinet pick,but both men have so far portrayed the scandal as an unjustified “hit” by disgruntled former employees.
The existence of a second chat in which the US defence secretary shared highly sensitive military information is the latest development that has put his judgment under scrutiny.
For much of this past week,the US president was consumed by a single question. What should he do about national security adviser Michael Waltz?
Details of a planned US airstrike in Yemen mistakenly shared with a journalist on the messaging app Signal were almost certainly classified information,military experts say.
The Atlantic released the operational details sent by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to the breached Signal group after the Trump administration insisted the information wasn’t classified.
Two top national security leaders who were members of the highly sensitive Signal group chat discussing airstrikes in Yemen fronted a Senate hearing,denying that classified information had been shared.
For any other government,accidentally adding a journalist to a chat about military airstrikes would be a crisis. For Trump’s,it’s barely a blip on the radar.
Meanwhile,E3 countries say they are “appalled” by the violence in Gaza and called for an immediate stop to strikes.
US President Donald Trump has launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen,promising to use “overwhelming lethal force” until the Iranian-backed Houthis cease attacks on shipping.