WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — Navy divers have recovered an plane that crashed final month within the water off the Japanese Shore close to the Virginia-Maryland line, killing one sailor.
The E-2D Hawkeye was conducting routine flight operations within the neighborhood of Wallops Island, Virginia, when it went down round 7:30 p.m. on March 30, a Navy spokesperson mentioned. One of many three sailors on the aircraft died within the crash, whereas the opposite two have been rescued by Maryland State Police, who discovered them injured and on prime of the partly submerged wreck.
The aircraft, a sophisticated tactical airborne early warning plane, relies out of Naval Station Norfolk and assigned to an East Coast Airborne Command and Management Squadron.
The Virginian-Pilot reported that to get well the aircraft on Tuesday, the Navy known as on divers from Little Creek’s Cell Diving and Salvage Unit 2, which makes a speciality of salvage and restoration of underwater objects. Divers lower the plane into sections, put them every right into a sling which was lifted by a crane onto barges which carried these sections out of the realm.
The crash stays underneath investigation.
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