An aerial port quarter view of the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) approaching the site where the Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 2 (HS-2) SH-3H Sea King helicopter crashed. A motor whale boat carrying survivors of the crash approached the KITTY HAWK. The helicopter suffered engine failure while conducting a routine anti-submarine warfare patrol around the KITTY HAWK when the accident occurred

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An aerial port quarter view of the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) approaching the site where the Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 2 (HS-2) SH-3H Sea King helicopter crashed. A motor whale boat carrying survivors of the crash approached the KITTY HAWK. The helicopter suffered engine failure while conducting a routine anti-submarine warfare patrol around the KITTY HAWK when the accident occurred

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Country: Indian Ocean (IOC)

Scene Camera Operator: Unknown

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.