Original thread starter post has been updated with some more detail but not much.
Crashed F-35C Fell off USS Carl Vinson Flight Deck into South China Sea [as one would expect of a wire break] 25 Jan 2022 Sam LaGrone
https://news.usni.org/2022/01/25/cra...outh-china-sea
"...[U.S. 7th Fleet said early Tuesday in a statement] “An F-35C Lightning II assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, embarked aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) had a landing mishap and impacted the flight deck and subsequently fell to the water during routine flight operations,” the statement said. “Impact to the flight deck was superficial and all equipment for flight operations is operational. Carrier Air Wing 2 and USS Carl Vinson have resumed routine flight operations in the South China Sea.”...
...The Monday crash during a landing on the carrier injured seven sailors,
including the pilot who ejected from the F-35 and was recovered from the water by helicopter. “
The pilot and two other sailors were [evacuated] to a medical treatment facility in Manila, Philippines, and four sailors were treated by on-board medical personnel,” reads the 7th Fleet statement. All the sailors are in stable condition.
“The U.S. Navy is making recovery operations arrangements for the F-35C aircraft involved in the mishap aboard USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea,” U.S. 7th Fleet said in a late Tuesday statement following an earlier version of this post...."