Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
A search is underway for two Navy crew members who were onboard the EA-18G Growler aircraft that crashed east of Mount Rainier on Tuesday.. The aircraft took off from Naval Air Station Whidbey ...
The missing aviators were onboard a EA-18G Growler that took off from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island during a training flight. It reportedly crashed at around 3:23 p.m. Tuesday, according to the ...
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 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 ...
Map of Trentino, Italy; Cavalese is located in the north-east of the autonomous province. On 3 February 1998, an EA-6B Prowler, BuNo (bureau number) 163045, 'CY-02', callsign Easy 01, an electronic warfare aircraft belonging to Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 (VMAQ-2) of the United States Marine Corps, was on a low-altitude training mission.
The combat veterans were both from California, the Navy said in announcing their deaths.
Electromagnetic Attack Squadron 137 (VAQ-137) also known as the "Rooks", is a United States Navy electromagnetic attack squadron based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Washington, flying the Boeing EA-18G Growler. The squadron is attached to Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11), which is currently assigned to USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71).