Puma deck-landings on small ships?

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Originally Posted by Cows getting bigger

Interesting that the USN appears to be making a habit of bending ships. I wonder if they are waving the 'due regard' flag a bit too hard.

10 US Navy sailors missing after destroyer collides with merchant ship - CNN

At least the damage occurred on port-side, suggesting they may not be entirely to blame. Nevertheless, begs the question how they ever let a fast and manoeuvrable vessel get anywhere near a potential collision with a slow, difficult to manoeuvre well lit oil tanker beaning out Class A AIS. Interesting that it seems they were running with their AIS off (last signal was received some five hours or so before the collision) which is perfectly legal for a warship, but you wonder also why they would do that in an extremely busy shipping lane at night unless they were running some sort of exercise - in which case even more strange that they got into a collision scenario.

Seems like some went overboard rather than trapped below as in the Fitzgerald. Possibly from the flight deck, given that is most exposed to and near collision.