2ND NAVY JET CRASHES IN 1 WEEK.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A Navy jet crashed into the ocean during a carrier exercise Saturday, killing one crew member and injuring two others, the Navy said. A fourth crew member was missing. The EA-6B Prowler crashed about 12:05 p.m. while conducting routine flight operations from the USS Kitty Hawk Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Kitty Hawk:
The crash came six days after an F-14D Tomcat A popular Java servlet container from the Apache Jakarta project. Tomcat uses the Jasper converter to turn JSPs into servlets for execution. Tomcat is widely used with the JBoss application server. For more information, visit http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat. See Jakarta and JBoss. fighter jet crashed into the Pacific Ocean off San Diego during exercises, killing its two crew members. The names of the crew members killed in the latest crash were being withheld pending notification of relatives. The injured were rescued by helicopter and being examined aboard the carrier, said Cmdr. Gregg Hartung, spokesman for Commander Naval Air Force U.S. Pacific Fleet. Their conditions were not immediately known. The crew members were part of the Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 135, based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island “Ault Field” redirects here. For the census-designated place, see Ault Field, Washington.  This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. , Wash. They were at Miramar Naval Air Station A Naval Air Station is an airbase of the United States Navy. Such bases are used to house Naval Aviation squadrons and support commands. List of Functioning US Naval Air Stations
The cause of the crash was not known. The unarmed plane went down about 40 miles from the Kitty Hawk during training exercises for the ship's October deployment to the Western Pacific and possibly the Persian Gulf. The crash was one of more than 30 in the last five years and prompted the Navy to ground its entire fleet of F-14s at least until today. Miramar is home base for the Navy's F-14s and they are maintained there. The EA-6B Prowlers, which can carry bombs but are chiefly used to jam enemy radar and telecommunications links, are kept and serviced at Whidbey. Several planes from Miramar have crashed in recent months. The last three F-14s to crash were based at Miramar, although they were from different squadrons. The last Prowler crash was on June 29, 1994, at the Navy air station in Fallon, Nev., Hartung said. No one was hurt or killed. |
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