U.S. Navy aircraft crashes in waters near Eastern Shore; 1 dead, 2 injured

Lt. Cmdr. Rob Myers, a public affairs officer with Naval Air Pressure Atlantic, instructed The Related Press the airplane was conducting routine flight operations within the neighborhood of Wallops Island, Virginia, when it went down round 7:30 p.m.

Two injured folks had been rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard and one was discovered lifeless within the plane, U.S. Navy E2-D Hawkeye, Myers stated.

The airplane, a complicated tactical airborne early warning plane, is predicated 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 Hearth Division, instructed The Related Press that it and different businesses had been on the scene after the airplane went down in Chincoteague Bay close to the group of Stockton.

Whittington stated a volunteer fireplace division in Stockton was the primary to reply after getting a name round 7:30 p.m., including different businesses had been aiding.

He stated waters within the bay had been comparatively calm as divers from his fireplace division and one different helped rescue two folks from the airplane. He added that they had been taken to a hospital however he had no additional info on their situation.

The identities of the three weren’t instantly launched by the Navy or others.

“One particular person was caught within the airplane,” Whittington stated, including crews had been working to take away the third particular person.

An announcement launched by Myers at Naval Air Pressure Atlantic in Virginia stated the 2 crewmembers have accidents that are not thought of life-threatening. The title of the deceased crew member will likely be launched as soon as subsequent of kin is notified, WAVY-TV stories.

Whittington stated 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 Japanese Shore location is about 150 miles (240 kilometers) east-southeast of Washington, D.C