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The names of the two Navy aviators who died last week when their EA-18G Growler jet crashed near Mount Rainier have been released.. Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay P. Evans, 31, of California, and Lt. Serena N ...
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 ...
Captain Rebecca Lobach, 28, from Durham, North Carolina, was the pilot flying and undergoing her annual night evaluation flight. She had accumulated more than 450 hours of flight time at the time of the crash. [19] [20] [21] Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Maryland, was the pilot monitoring and the evaluator for the ...
They are among only a few women to fly combat missions over land, the Navy's Carrier Strike Group 2 said on Monday.
Others killed in the crash were pilot Robert N. Elliott, Croce's bandmate Maury Muehleisen, comedian George Stevens, manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortese, and road manager Dennis Rast. Beechcraft E18S: Natchitoches, Louisiana: Pilot's failure to see the obstruction due to physical impairment and because fog reduced his vision.
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 EA-18G Growler, based out of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., crashed just after 3:20 p.m. local time during a routine training flight, the Navy said in a… Navy jet crashes in ...
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.