Navy jet located after crashing near Mount Rainier in Washington

The wreckage of a Navy pitchy that crashed connected Tuesday day was located connected a mountainside eastbound of Mount Rainier successful Washington, according to officials.

The U.S. Navy said connected Wednesday evening that aerial hunt crews located the wreckage of the EA-18G Growler that crashed astatine astir 12:30 p.m. section clip connected Tuesday.

While the level has been located, the presumption of the 2 unit members remains chartless arsenic hunt efforts continue.

In a station connected Facebook connected Tuesday, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, wherever the pitchy was based retired of, said the EA-18G Growler from Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 130 reportedly crashed astatine astir 3:25 p.m. during a regular grooming flight.

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FILE - A Boeing EA-18G Growler pitchy with the VAQ-141, US Navy Electronic Attack Squadron, crashed adjacent Mount Rainier successful Washington connected Tuesday, and the wreckage was located connected Wednesday evening. (Damon Coulter/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Now that the pitchy wreckage has been located, an Emergency Operations Center has been established astatine NAS Whidbey Island to coordinate effect efforts.

The Navy is besides preparing to unafraid the distant country wherever the jet crashed, which is not accessible by motorized vehicles.

"I americium thankful for the tremendous teamwork displayed by the NAS Whidbey Island squadrons – VAQ, VP, VQ, TOCRON 10 and SAR – arsenic Team Whidbey continues to respond to our tragic mishap," Capt. David Ganci, commander, Electronic Attack Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet, said. "I americium besides grateful to section instrumentality enforcement, responders, and tribal communities whose concern has been indispensable successful readying our captious adjacent steps for entree to the site."

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A U.S. Navy Growler pitchy crashed adjacent Mount Rainier connected Tuesday during a regular grooming exercise. (Photo by Thomas O'Neill/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The probe into the clang is ongoing, and the Navy said it volition merchandise much accusation arsenic it becomes available.

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.

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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.

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