The USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier collided with a dhow in the Arabian Gulf while conducting night flights in support of U.S. forces in Iraq, the Navy said Friday. The crew of the small boat was missing.
The Navy said none of its sailors were hurt and described the Thursday night collision as an "accident." A nearby British warship, the Somerset, dispatched teams to search for the dhow's crew but had found nothing so far, the Navy said in a statement from its 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain.
Fleet spokesman Cmdr. James Graybeal told The AP that "there is nothing to indicate that this is anything more than a maritime accident." (albawaba.com)
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