The US Navy has launched a search and rescue operation for a sailor presumed to have fallen overboard from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, sailing in the North Arabian Sea, ABC News reports.
The sailor was unaccounted for after a head count aboard the carrier. The Nimitz and the guided missile cruiser USS Princeton have undertaken the search.
“The sailor was not located upon a search on board which resulted in a man overboard being called and the activation of the search and rescue,” Cmdr. Rebecca Rebarich, a 5th Fleet spokesperson told ABC News.