OCEAN CITY, Md. — A U.S. Navy plane with three individuals aboard crashed in waters close to the Jap Shore boundary of Virginia and Maryland on Wednesday night, killing one, authorities mentioned.
Lt. Cmdr. Rob Myers, a public affairs officer with Naval Air Pressure Atlantic, advised The Related Press the aircraft was conducting routine flight operations within the neighborhood of Wallops Island, Virginia, when it went down round 7:30 p.m.
Two injured individuals had been rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard and one was discovered useless within the plane, U.S. Navy E2-D Hawkeye, Myers mentioned.
The aircraft, a complicated tactical airborne early warning plane, relies out of Naval Station Norfolk and assigned to an East Coast Airborne Command and Management Squadron.
Ryan Whittington, a spokesman for Maryland’s Ocean Metropolis Fireplace Division, advised The Related Press that it and different companies had been on the scene after the aircraft went down in Chincoteague Bay close to the group of Stockton.
Whittington mentioned a volunteer fireplace division in Stockton was the primary to reply after getting a name round 7:30 p.m., including different companies had been helping.
He mentioned waters within the bay had been comparatively calm as divers from his fireplace division and one different helped rescue two individuals from the aircraft. He added that they had been taken to a hospital however he had no additional data on their situation.
The identities of the three weren’t instantly launched by the Navy or others.
“One individual was caught within the aircraft,” Whittington mentioned, including crews had been working to take away the third individual.
A press release launched by Myers at Naval Air Pressure Atlantic in Virginia mentioned the 2 crewmembers have accidents that aren’t thought-about life-threatening. The title of the deceased crew member will likely be launched as soon as subsequent of kin is notified, WAVY-TV reviews.
Whittington mentioned emergency responders had been staged at a George Island Touchdown, an space simply on the Maryland facet of the road with Virginia on the west facet of Chincoteague Bay. The Jap Shore location is about 150 miles (240 kilometers) east-southeast of Washington, D.C
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