The setback is the latest for the pier, which has already had three U.S. service member injuries and had four if its vessels beached due to heavy seas.
The U.K. defense ministry confirmed the death of a Royal Air Force pilot after the World War II-era Spitfire plane that he was flying crashed Saturday.
Generations of American families have grown up not knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who died while serving their country in World War II.