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Saturday, March 13, 2010

U.S. Grounds 104 Hornets After More Cracks Discovered

F/A-18 Super HornetU.S. Naval Air Systems Command grounded 104 U.S. Navy and Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets March 12 after inspectors discovered the airframes were developing cracks much earlier than engineers had thought.

The grounding order affects the first four varieties of Hornet - models A through D - and does not apply to aircraft now flying combat missions over Iraq or Afghanistan.

The number of Hornets affected makes up 16 percent of the Navy-Marine A through D fleet.

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