No foul play is suspected in Sunday’s crashes of two U.S. Navy aircraft in the South China Sea, President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday.
In two separate incidents, the U.S. Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 11 lost a helicopter and a fighter jet in the South China Sea, with no casualties.
Speaking from Air Force One en route to Japan, Trump said he expected to find out the causes of the incidents “pretty soon.”
“I think they should be able to find out. It could be bad fuel. I mean, it’s possible it’s bad fuel. Very unusual that that would happen,” he said….