Navy confirms death of crew after jet crashes near Mount Rainier in Washington

U.S. Naval officials confirmed Sunday that the 2 unit members of a Navy pitchy that crashed adjacent Mount Rainier successful Washington past week were located and declared dead.

The EA-18G Growler pitchy from the Electronic Attack Squadron retired of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station crashed connected a mountainside eastbound of Mount Rainier connected Tuesday afternoon. While the wreckage of the level was located resting astir 6,000 feet up successful a remote, steep and heavily-wooded area, the presumption of the unit remained chartless without a tract appraisal of the debris area.

Army Special Forces soldiers trained successful mountaineering, high-angle rescue, aesculapian and method connection skills needed to navigate the hard terrain assisted with efforts to find the missing unit members arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.

On Sunday, the Navy said Electronic Attack Wing Pacific shifted from hunt and rescue efforts to betterment operations, noting that the 2 missing unit members had been located and were pronounced dead.

NAVY JET LOCATED AFTER CRASHING NEAR MOUNT RAINIER IN WASHINGTON

The unit members of an EA-18G Growler that crashed adjacent Mount Rainier successful Washington were pronounced dormant by the Navy connected Sunday. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aron Montano)

"It is with a dense bosom that we stock the nonaccomplishment of 2 beloved Zappers," Commander Timothy Warburton, commanding serviceman of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 130 said connected Sunday. "Our precedence close present is taking attraction of the families of our fallen aviators and ensuring the well-being of our Sailors and the Growler community. We are grateful for the ongoing teamwork to safely retrieve the deceased.

In a property release, the Navy said retired of respect for the families and successful accordance with Navy policy, the identities of the unit members would beryllium withheld for 24 hours aft adjacent of kin person been notified.

Personnel volition stay connected tract to retrieve debris and program for the semipermanent salvage and betterment efforts, the Navy noted.

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The U.S. Navy confirmed Sunday that the 2 unit members of a Navy pitchy that crashed adjacent Mount Rainier were pronounced dead. (Photo by Thomas O'Neill/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Navy added that the probe into the cause of the crash is ongoing.

The EA-18G is simply a variant of the F/A-18 household of aircraft, outfitted with a blase physics warfare suite that is utilized for tactical jamming and physics protection, according to the Navy’s website. The pitchy was built to regenerate the EA-6B Prowler, and archetypal went into accumulation successful October 2004.

The pitchy made its inaugural formation successful August 2006, and the archetypal transportation of the craft was made connected June 3, 2008, to VAQ 129 astatine NAS Whidbey Island.

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Each level comes with a terms tag of $67 million.