SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Five U.S. Navy sailors were rescued from the South China Sea on Sunday after a Navy fighter jet and helicopter crashed into the ocean in separate incidents, the U.S. Navy reports.

An F/A-18F Super Hornet and an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) went down in the ocean during routine operations and all crew safely ejected and were rescued.

At 2:45 p.m. local time on Sunday, the Navy reports an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the "Battle Cats" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73, went down in the waters of the South China Sea. Search and rescue crews assigned to Carrier Strike Group 11 recovered all three crew members from the water.

Less than an hour later, at 3:15 p.m., the Navy reports a two-seater Super H

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