1.   After that, Meade said, the crews rigged the same lighting that carrier decks have.

2.   Changing from a bat wing to a conventional tail has saved weight, added flexibility and made the plane easier to land on carrier decks.

3.   Carrier decks are routinely cleared of aircraft the day before the carrier docks.

4.   In August, the Army helicopter crews marked out areas at airfields at Fort Drum and practiced landing on a simulated carrier deck.

5.   One female pilot had to be sent home because she had trouble landing on the carrier deck.

6.   Slowed by this banking maneuver, the COD then dropped to the carrier deck.

7.   Fallon spoke to The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., in a telephone interview as warplanes landed and took off from the carrier deck.

8.   Fallon spoke by telephone with The Associated Press from aboard the Roosevelt as Navy and Marine Corps jets landed and launched from the carrier deck.

9.   It was not clear if the plane was also involved in the earlier accident on the carrier deck.

10.   The jets took off in waves from the carrier deck throughout the night.