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The U.S. Navy said Sunday that two pilots who went missing after a fighter jet crash near Mount Rainier in Washington state last week have died.. The pair were in a Navy EA-18G Growler on a ...
They are among only a few women to fly combat missions over land, the Navy's Carrier Strike Group 2 said on Monday.
151563, of VA-42, on a maintenance test flight out of NAS Oceana, Virginia, suffers failure of the drogue chute gun in the pilot's ejection seat, pulling the two ejection seat cables and ejecting Lt. Dalton C. Wright. The bombardier-navigator, Lt. John W. Adair, with no pilot in the aircraft, is forced to eject. Jet comes down 15 miles from Oceana.
The combat veterans were both from California, the Navy said in announcing their deaths.
American Airlines Flight 1572 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois to Bradley International Airport near Hartford, Connecticut. On November 12, 1995, Flight 1572 was operated using a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, a twin-engine , narrow-body jet airliner (registration N566AA ).
The Boeing EA-18G Growler is an American carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft, a specialized version of the two-seat Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet. The EA-18G replaced the Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowlers in service with the United States Navy. The Growler's electronic warfare capability is primarily provided by Northrop Grumman. The EA-18G ...
The Navy identified on Monday two "trailblazing" women aviators who were killed when their jet crashed in northeast Washington during an Oct. 15 training mission. A day after Navy officials ...
American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport.On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating this flight was taking off from runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control.