Both air crew survived that incident as well.

The Truman itself suffered a mishap in February when it collided with a merchant vessel off Port Said, Egypt.

The supercarrier has seen its deployment extended multiple times amid the Houthi airstrike campaign. It had been joined recently by the carrier USS Carl Vinson operating out of the Arabian Sea.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump and Oman’s foreign minister said a ceasefire had been reached with the Houthis, who would no longer target ships in the Red Sea corridor.

‘Hopefully that’s over with’

A Houthi spokesman sought to portray the ceasefire as a victory for the rebels, describing it as America “stopping aggression in exchange for stopping attacks”.

“Yemen’s victory represented a major shift in the balance of power”, Hashem Sharaf al-Din said in a statement carried by the state-run SABA news agency on Thursday.

The Houthis claimed a drone attack on Israel on Wednesday, which was acknowledged by the Israeli military without being attributed to the rebels.

Donald Trump, speaking in the Oval Office on Wednesday, said he expected the Houthis to uphold their commitment to stop firing on Red Sea shipping.

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“Hopefully that’s over with, and they’ll leave those ships alone,” he said. “We take their word for it.”

The Houthis had been waging persistent missile and drone attacks against shipping in what the group’s leadership has described as an effort to end Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza.

Earlier this week, Israeli warplanes attacked Sanaa International Airport, leaving it out of action.

Airport chief Khaled al-Shaif told the Houthis’ al-Masirah satellite news channel that the Israeli strike had destroyed the main terminal and left craters in the runway.

AP

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